Capt H Jeffcoat and Capt A Molesworth

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Reference WMO/107394

Address:

Rochester Cathedral

High Street

Rochester

ME1 1JY

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
  • Other
About the memorial: Location: Lady Chapel, north wall. Rectangular hammered copper plaque with raised inscription and raised cross top centre. Mounted onto a mottled marble backboard. Captain Jeffcoat was killed in the 2nd Boer War, and Captain Molesworth died in service in Nigeria some t9ome before the memorial was dedicated in 1905.
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A.M.D.G/ ET IN PIAM MEMORIAM/ ALUMNORUM SCHOLAE/ REGIAE ROFFENSIS NON/ RECUSANTIUM PRO PATRIA/ SUA ETIAM MORTEM OBIRE/ HENRICI JEFFCOAT/ IN AFRICA MERIDIONALL/ ARTURI MOLESWORTH/ IN NIGERIA/ HOC TABELLUM QUANTULUM CUNQUE PONENDUM CURAV-/ERUNI CONDISCIPULI MAERENTES/ ANNO SALVTIS MCMV (Translation: TO THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD AND IN SACRED MEMORY OF OLD BOYS OF THE KING'S SCHOOL, ROCHESTER WHO FOR THEIR COUNTRY WERE NOT UNWILLING TO FACE EVEN DEATH. HENRY JEFFCOAT IN SOUTH AFRICA, ARTHUR MOLESWORTH IN NIGERIA. THEIR SORROWING FELLOW PUPILS CAUSED THIS TABLET, HOWEVER SMALL IT MAY BE, TO BE ERECTED IN THE YEAR OF GRACE 1905)

Henry Jeffcoat D.S.O. d.1901 Arthur Molesworth d.1904.

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