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Location
In St Helen's Church, St Helens, Isle of Wight IWM War Memorials Archive Record The Memorial is not recorded by the War Memorials Archive Historic England Listing Status St Helen's Church is Listed Grade II. Since the Memorial forms part of the fittings of the Church, it is assumed to be covered by the Listing. Description Stone memorial plaque |
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Memorial
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Inscription
TO THE MEMORY OF EDWARD GROSE ESQUIRE, LATE A CAPTAIN IN H. M. FIRST REGIMENT OF GUARDS, AND THE ONLY SON OF SIR NASH GROSE, KNIGHT, AND DAME MARY HIS WIFE. HE FELL IN BATTLE AGAINST THE ARMIES OF FRANCE, THUS CROWNING IN THE DEFENCE OF NATIONAL AND GENERAL INDEPENDENCE A VICTORIOUS WARFARE, WHICH HAD EXTENDED FROM SPAIN TO FLANDERS, FROM CORUNNA AND CADIZ TO BAYONNE AND WATERLOO, HE DIED IN THE 32ND YEAR OF HIS AGE, ON THE 16TH DAY OF JUNE A. D. 1815. FAR FROM HIS GROVES, ANCESTRAL TOMBS AND FANE, BENEATH A FOREIGN TURF THE SOLDIER LIES: WHAT FUNERAL POMP PROCLAIMED HIS OBSEQUIES? THE VICTORS' SHOUTS, THE FOES' DISASTROUS CRIES HAVE PEALED HIS DIRGE, HIS PARTING REQUIEM SANG, AND HIS LAST KNELL THE CANNONS THUNDER RANG. PEACE TO THE BRAVE! THE EYE WITH STERN DELIGHT BEHOLDS THE WIDE CONFUSION OF THE FIGHT, COUNTS IN THIS HEAP A SACRIFICE OF FOES SLAIN AT THE ALTAR OF MANKINDS REPOSE: IN THAT A MARTYRED OFFERING UNTO HEAVEN. WHOSE SINS ARE FOR THEIR PATRIOT WOUNDS FORGIVEN, WHEN VICTORYS STANDARD IS BY FREEDOM FURLED, AND CONQUEST RESCUES, NOT ENSLAVES THE WORLD, HOLY THE GROUND ON WHICH THE CHAMPION STANDS, HOLY THE WEAPON GLITTERING IN HIS HANDS: BRIGHT ARE HIS DYING LOOKS, AS WESTERN SKIES TINGED BY THE SINKING SUN: AGAIN TO RISE HE SUFFERS TRANSIENT NIGHT, AND AT HIS CLOSE IN GLORY TO THE EARTH BEQUEATHS REPOSE. |
Memorials & Monuments
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