A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC and other Headstones -
- Northwood Cemetery (Cowes) : William James Finch -

Location

In Northwood Cemetery, Cowes, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Additional Memorial Inscription (although no trace of other family grave markers are present)

Plot 25 grave 7461
Headstone

Northwood Cemetery (Cowes) : W J Finch
 
Inscription


IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF
BUGLER W J FINCH
B CO. I.W. RIFLES,
ONLY SON OF THE LATE
W. FINCH AND OF M. FINCH
REPORTED MISSING,
THEN KILLED AT GALLIPOLI
12TH AUGUST 1915, AGED 21.
HE SLEEPS, GOD WATCHING O'ER
IN THAT 'GOD'S ACRE'
ON A FOREIGN
SHORE


 
Further Information

CWGC record ...

Date and place of birth :1894, Ryde, Isle of Wight, the son of William George Finch and Frances Mary (née Jacobs) Finch.
Date of death :12 Aug 1915, Gallipoli
Where buried or commemorated :Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey


 
 

 
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