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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Binstead Cemetery

Mr Samuel Shaw (Sergeant)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Samuel
Surnames: Shaw
Date of Death: 26/08/1902
Age at Death Years: 80
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Sergeant
Map Reference Number: RSHG B020 D2
Plot Number: Binstead Old Cemetery Row M Plot 29
Grave Description: Tall arched headstone with shoulders and hips, IHS is carved into arch, engraved lettering
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Headstone is leaning forwards and to the right, difficult to read the text
Old Website Grave ID: 11027

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
SAMUEL SHAW
LATE SERGEANT 1st BATTALION RIFLE BRIGADE
DIED 26th AUGUST 1902
AGED 80 YEARS
THERE THY WEARY ARE AT REST

HE SERVED IN IONIAN ISLANDS
THE KAFFIR WARS OF 1846 AND 1852 3
AND CRIMEA
WAS PRESENT AT ALMA BALACLAVA AND SEVASTPOL
SEVERELY WOUNDED AT INKERMAN
AND GRANTED SILVER MEDAL
FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE IN THE FIELD

ALSO OF MARY HIS WIFE
WHO PASSED AWAY
JANUARY 4th 1926
AGED 89 YEARS
AT REST

Photographs:

Colin Hunt
S&M Shaw (Aug 2020)
Photographer: Colin Hunt

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