Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

All Saints, Beckley

Inscription:

ERECTED BY
CHARLES ERNEST BATES AND MARY ELIZABETH HIS WIFE
OF LIME COURT IN THIS PARISH
IN LOVING MEMORY OF THEIR TWO SONS
ALBERT JOHN, WHO FELL AT HAMEL, FRANCE, ON SEPTEMBER 3RD 1916, AGED 23,
AND REGINALD ERNEST, WHO DIED OF WOUNDS AT ARRAS, APRIL 19TH 1917, AGED 20
AND AS A GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO OUR FIGHTING MEN OF ALL ARMS,
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR FREEDOM IN THE GREAT WAR.

Monument details:

Type: Stone Tablet.

Monument Condition: Excellent.

Inscription Condition: Excellent.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Bates.

First Name(s): Albert John.

Birth date: Not given.

Death date: 03 Sep 1916.

Age: 23.

Comments:

A tablet set into the lower internal wall of the lych gate.

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

Image:

Image of a monument

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