Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- East Cowes- Kingston Cemetery -
- Trinity House 1894 Explosion Communal Grave -

Location

Kingston Cemetery, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.
 
Description

Memorial headstone and kerbstones of the communal grave of most of the Trinity House men killed in an explosion in the Solent on 19th July 1894.

Grave References are

COTTER, Frederick J D (A1155)
OATLEY, William H (A1156)
HUTCHINGS, Alfred (A1157)
COOK, William S (A1158)
CLAVELL, Henry (A1159)

Memorial / Headstone



















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Inscription



The kerbstones bear the names of the five men buried here :

Newspaper reports :



Part of a very long report on the explosion and subsequent inquest in the Isle of Wight County Press of 21 July 1894. The funeral service and interment were reported the following week.

Further information :

All these men are buried in this grave, apart from Albert Snow, who was buried at Northwood Cemetery, Cowes, on 21 March 1895. Alfred Rennie was born in Carlisle, Cumberland; it is not known where he is buried.

Acknowledgments :

Thanks to Janet Griffin for photographs, transcription and additional research.