Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
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Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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St. Johns Cemetery

Mr James Ernest Tuckwell (Lance Corporal)

Title: Mr
Forenames: James Ernest
Surnames: Tuckwell
Date of Death: 05/05/1917
Age at Death Years: 22
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Lance Corporal
Map Reference Number: RSHG SJCN
Plot Number: St John's Cemetery Plot Children North Section West Grave 13
Grave Description: Upright arched headstone with carved flower relief. There is also a memorial plaque for James Tuckwell in St John's Church.
Other Information: Church records show John Wheeler is also buried in this plot.
Old Website Grave ID: 14907

Inscription:

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
HAROLD WILLIAM
DARLING SON OF
ERNEST AND ELIZABETH TUCKWELL
DIED MARCH 7 1893 AGED 6 MONTHS.
SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS

ALSO
LANCE CORPORAL JAMES E. TUCKWELL
1-8TH HANTS REGT. WAS WOUNDED IN
PALESTINE APRIL 19. DIED MAY 5. 1917,
AGED 22 YEARS.
HE SERVED THROUGH GALLIPOLI
WITH THE ????
HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR KING AND COUNTRY.
(can't read last line)

Plaque St John's Church, Ryde
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
LANCE CORPORAL
JAMES ERNEST TUCKWELL
1ST HANTS REGIMENT
WOUNDED ON THE 19TH APRIL 1917
AT GAZA
DIED MAY 5TH AGED 22
HIS LAST WORDS "OH JESUS COME TO ME"
REST IN PEACE

Photographs:

David Marshall
H W & J E Tuckwell
Photographer: David Marshall
J Tuckwell plaque St John's Ch

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