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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Ryde Cemetery

Mr Leslie Scott (Lieutenant)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Leslie
Surnames: Scott
Date of Death: 12/10/1917
Age at Death Years: 33
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Lieutenant
Map Reference Number: RSHG 014 D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section A Plots 22/23 & Plots 54/55
Grave Description: Large square monument with a broken column on top. A very large plot surrounded with 8 thick corner posts and very elaborate iron railings, concrete top. It appears to be connected with the grave next to it (Barnes) the railings match and are joined.
Grave Condition Description: Some grass and weeds are growing through the concrete.
Old Website Grave ID: 2961

Inscription:

South side
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
HENRY ALLEN
SON OF JOHN ALLEN AND FLORENCE SCOTT
DIED 27TH DEC 1882
AGED 7 MONTHS
"FOR SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN"

West side
TO THE MEMORY OF
HELEN SCOTT
DEPARTED THIS LIFE 14TH JANUARY 1865
AGED 11 YEARS

ALSO
IN THE LOVING MEMORY OF
WILLIAM GEORGE SCOTT
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
18TH JULY 1882
AGED 26 YEARS

East facing
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN EDMUND SCOTT
BORN SEPT 9TH 1823 DIED DEC 4TH 1878
"IN FAITH AND REPENTANCE TRUSTING IN THE BLOOD OF LORD JESUS"

ALSO OF
SARAH SCOTT, WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JAN 14TH 1886 AGED 68 YEARS
"THROUGH MUCH TRIBULATION"

North side
IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
JOHN ALLEN SCOTT
DIED MARCH 25TH 1886
AGED 36 YEARS

AND OF HIS YOUNGEST SON
LESLIE SCOTT
LIEUT. HOUSEHOLD BATTALION
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE
OCT 12TH 1917
AGED 33 YEARS
"DEATH ....... THE GATEWAY TO LIFE ETERNAL.

TRIBUTE OF LOVE FROM HIS DEVOTED MOTHER

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Scott family plot (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Scott family plot (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
J & L Scott (March 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: 1891, 1901 Census; Obituary.
''Entries from the 1891 and 1901 census and the obituary from the IW Observer. Killed in action.''

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