Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Chale -
- Hoy Monument -

Location

At St Catherine's Down, north of Chale, Isle of Wight
 
IWM War Memorials Archive Record

Link : War Memorials Archive Reference 20865  
 
Description

The Hoy Monument, or Alexandrian column, is 72 ft high. It was erected by Michael Hoy, a merchant who lived at The Hermitage, in commemoration of the visit to England by Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in 1814.

It bears an additional plaque to the memory of a British regiment which served in the Crimean War.

The monument was refurbished in 1992, and the plaque to Tsar Alexander I recut. The unveiling took place in the presence of His Excellency the Russian ambassador, Mr. Boris Pankin.

The new plaque was supplied by Wight Stonemasonry Ltd, and cut by Andrew Morris of Niton.

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Further Information

Son of James Richard Dawes and Mary Crann.
William Henry Dawes was born in St Helens, Isle of Wight in about 1807.
His Army records indicates that he served with the Army from 1826 - 1834, and therefore did not serve in the Crimean War. Assumed that he placed the tablet on the Hoy monument as an act of recognition of his Regiment's service. He married Harriette Jacob Toomer of Godshill in 1850 when he was 43 and she was 26. By 1861 he and his wife were living at "Wydcome", Whitwell with two servants. He is shown as a "Retired Military Officer. Land" indicating that they had income from landholdings. He died in 1863. Harriette Jacob Dawes died in London in 1884.