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 Wilfred Herbert Beszant (Rifleman)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Wilfred Herbert
Surnames: Beszant
Date of Death: 01/10/1916
Age at Death Years: 24
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Rifleman
Map Reference Number: RSHG 032 B2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 550
Grave Description: Upright two tier plinth with stone cross on top, surround stone kerbs decorated with cross.
Grave Condition Description: Bottom tier sinking, overgrown in middle, crack on first tier.
Old Website Grave ID: 7220

Inscription:

Top Tier
GEORGE VALENTINE
"GEORGIE"
THE BELOVED CHILD OF
T.V AND S BESZANT
BORN OCT 25, 1885
DIED JAN 16 1898
"LOST AWHILE OUR TREASURED LOVE,
GAINED FOREVER SAFE ABOVE"

Second Tier
WILFRED HERBERT BESZANT
RIFLEMAN 16TH LONDON REGT: (Illegible)
WHO WAS KILLED AT LES BOEUFS, FRANCE
OCT 1 1916 AGED 24

"HAIL AND FAREWELL ALL HONOUR GIVE
TO THOSE WHO NOBLY STRIVING NOBLY FELL
THAT WE MAY LIVE"

South kerb
IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOMAS VALENTINE BESZANT DIED JULY 2ND 1894 AGED 32 YEARS

East kerb
"A LITTLE WHILE"

North kerb
"WHETHER WE WAKE OR SLEEP WE SHOULD LIVE TOGETHER WITH HIM"

Photographs:

David Earle
W Beszant 26.09.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
W Beszant
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Commonwealth War Grave Commission Record

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