A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Brading St Mary the Virgin Churchyard -
- H R Burgess -

Location

In St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Brading, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Standard CWGC headstone. WWI period.
Headstone

Brading St Mary : Burgess
 
Inscription


9570 LANCE CPL.
H.R. BURGESS
DUKE OF CORNWALL'S L.I.
19TH AUGUST 1917 AGE 24
+
INTO THY HANDS


 
Further Information

Son of : George Burgess and sarah Burgess (née Taylor). Born 1893, Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Kent.
 
Married : Nellie Pink, at St Mary's Church, Brading, Isle of Wight, in 1917. Their daughter Gladys Nellie Burgess was born later in 1917.
 
CWGC record ...
 
Died from injuries received following a collision with a horse-drawn van while riding his bicycle at Arreton Shute.
 
See Inquest report transcription

Commemorated on the War Memorials in Tenterden Methodist Church, Kent, his home town.


 


 
 

 
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