Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Brook St Mary the Virgin Churchyard -
- N R W Seely -

Location

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

Standard CWGC headstone. WW II period.

Small brass plaque in the Church marks the installation of electric light in memory of Nigel Seely.

Headstone


 

 

Inscription




 
Further Information

Son of Charles Hilton Seely and Hilda Lucie Seely; husband of I. E. M. Seely.

CWGC record ... (CWGC record gives his wife's name incorrectly as Y. E. M. Seeley).

Nigel Richard William Seely was born on 13 November 1902. He married Isabella Elinor Margarete von Rieben, daughter of Eugene von Rieben, on 24 March 1937. They had four children.

Nigel Seely's elder brother Charles Grant Seely was killed in WW I.

Nigel Seely's cousin Frank Reginald Seely was killed in WW I.