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 William Alfred Moses (Petty Officer)

Title: Mr
Forenames: William Alfred
Surnames: Moses
Date of Death: 11/03/1915
Age at Death Years: 49
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Petty Officer
Map Reference Number: RSHG 037 C1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section D Plot 921a
Grave Description: Broken Calvary cross with leaded lettering and stone kerbs.
Grave Condition: Fair
Other Information: William Moses was killed on board HMS Bayano which was an Armed Merchant Cruiser sunk by German U-Boat U27 without warning ten miles from Corsewell Point while en route from Glasgow to Liverpool. One hundred and ninety-five Officers and Ratings were killed.
Old Website Grave ID: 13617

Inscription:

Top Tier
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF

Middle Tier
KATE MOSES
DIED MAY 22ND 1924 AGED 57 YEARS

ALSO OF HER HUSBAND
WILLIAM ALFRED MOSES
KILLED IN ACTION ON HMS BAYANO

Bottom Tier
MARCH 11TH 1915 AGED 49 YEARS
R.I.P

Photographs:

David Bushell
K & W Moses Nov 2016
Photographer: David Bushell
David Bushell
K & W Moses Nov 2016
Photographer: David Bushell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Coastguard Cotts Forelands Fields Bembridge

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