Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
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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Ryde Cemetery

Mr John (Jack) William Towers-Clark (Lieutenant)

Title: Mr
Forenames: John (Jack) William
Surnames: Towers-Clark
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Age at Death Years: 20
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Lieutenant
Map Reference Number: RSHG 002 A1
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 3 Plot 538
Grave Description: Large raised stone tomb (2ft approx above ground) metal ornament, a Heliochronometer, mounted at east end, serial number 638.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Overhung by a tree and becoming overgrown with ivy on top. Lichen on inscription on north side makes it difficult to read and the tree and build up of soil on south side also makes part of the inscription (first part of name) impossible to read.

Inscription:

North side
MIRABEL.BLADEN.NEIL.TOWERS.CLARK DIED ?? ?? ????

South side
....RIETTA CECILIA WHITE DIED 31ST OCTOBER 1925

On the Heliochronometer
"IN MEMORY OF JACK"
KILLED JULY 1 1916
UNITED IN TIME, PARTED IN TIME
TO BE REUNITED WHEN TIME SHALL BE NO MORE

On face of Heliochronometer
BON JOUR, BON SOIR
"AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL
REMEMBER THEM"
"CHEERIO"

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Towers Clark family August 2015
Photographer: Janette Gregson
David Earle
J Towers-Clark February 2006
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
J Towers-Clark heliochronomoter February 2006
Photographer: David Earle

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