Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Parkhurst Military Cemetery : W T O Fitzgerald -

Location

In Parkhurst Military Cemetery, Forest Road, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Private memorial - stone

Grave location : Local plan : Grave 061
Headstone

Parkhurst Military Cemetery : W T O Fitzgerald
 
Inscription


BANDMASTER WILLIAM T.O. FITZGERALD
WHO DIED AT PARKHURST
MARCH 9TH 1895

THE NIGHT DEW THAT GLISTENS
THOUGH IN SILENCE IT WEEPS
SHALL BRIGHTEN WITH VERRURE
THE GRAVE WHERE HE SLEEPS
AND THE TEARS THAT WE SHED
THOUGH IN SILENCE THEY ROLL
SHALL LONG KEEP HIS MEMORY
CLOSE IN OUR SOULS

THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER
WARRANT OFFICERS AND STAFF SERGEANTS


 
Further Information

Index Board entry 061 : William T O Fitzgerald, Bandmaster : 9.3.1895

Also commemorated on the memorial stone to 2nd Bn Scottish Rifles


 


 
 

 
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