Memorials and Monuments on the Isle of Wight - Freshwater All Saints : Frederick Alan Rae & Hector Robert Rae

Location

In All Saints' Cemetery, Freshwater, Isle of Wight

Description

Private headstone. Additional inscription.

Headstone

Freshwater : Frederick Alan Rae & Hector Robert Rae

Inscription

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
OUR BELOVED SONS
FREDERICK ALAN RAE
LONDON FIRE BRIGADE
KILLED DURING WAR OPERATIONS
OCT 17TH 1940
AGED 22 YEARS
AND
HECTOR ROBERT RAE, P.O., R.N.
KILLED IN ACTION H.M.S. HOOD
MAY 24TH 1941
AGED 27 YEARS
IN HIS KEEPING

IN BELOVED MEMORY OF
ROBERT
DENHAM
RAE
1889 - 1973
GERTRUDE
ELLEN
RAE
1890 - 1975

Further Information

Sons of Robert Denham Rae, and Gertrude Ellen Rae, of St. Eloi, The Avenue, Totland, Isle of Wight.

Frederick Alan Rae is buried at Freshwater; Hector Robert Rae died at sea and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.

CWGC record ... for Frederick Alan Rae

CWGC record ... for Hector Robert Rae

Commemorated at : Freshwater War Memorial

There is also a Memorial plaque attached to a bookcase in All Saints Church in memory of the brothers.

Frederick Rae is also commemorated on the National Memorial of the United Kingdom Fire Service near St Paul's Cathedral in London.

HMS Hood Association record with photograph of H R Rae

Memorials & Monumentson the Isle of Wight- CWGC Headstones - - Freshwater All Saints : Frederick Alan Rae & Hector Robert Rae -

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Freshwater All Saints : Frederick Alan Rae & Hector Robert Rae -