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Binstead Cemetery

Mrs Ellen Boyce

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Ellen
Surnames: Boyce
Date of Death: 27/01/1914
Age at Death Years: 54
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG B015 B3
Plot Number: Binstead Old Cemetery Row I Plot 20
Grave Description: Upright trefoil stepped cross with integral shoulders. Lead lettering.

Grave Condition Description: Quite good despite some weathering and lettering missing, some orange and black lichen cover.

Old Website Grave ID: 10684

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELLEN
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
WILLIAM BOYCE,
WHO FELL ASLEEP JAN. 27TH 1914,
AGED 54 YEARS.

"THY WILL BE DONE."

ALSO JAMES, LCE. CORPL. 1ST GRENDR GRDS.
YOUNGEST AND DEARLY LOVED SON OF THE ABOVE,
WHO DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION AT FESTUBERT,
AND WAS INTERRED IN THE GROUNDS OF THE MILITARY
HOSPITAL BETHUNE, FRANCE, JUNE 4TH 1915,
AGED 20 YEARS.

HE LOVED GOD, HONOURED THE KING AND DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY.

THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
OF DEATH I WILL FEAR NO EVIL PSALM XXIII.IV.

Photographs:

Carol Strong
Boyce
Photographer: Carol Strong
Tracy Welstead
E Boyce April 2018
Photographer: Tracy Welstead

Related Documents:

PDF file: Boyce Ellen
Death and Obituary from Isle of Wight County Press and South of England Reporter 31 January 1914

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