Captain Charles Grant Seely

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Reference WMO/175077

Address:

St. Olave's Church

Gatcombe

Newport

PO30 3EJ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Other monument
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A reclining marble statue representing Captain Seely, on a box tomb. The sides of the tomb have representations of crests associated with the family and Seely's affliations, and pictorial scenes. The sculptor was the late Sir Thomas Brock. Unveiled on 2 October 1922 by HRH Princess Beatrice at a service conducted by the Rev B K Bond, Regimental Chaplain during the war to the Isle of Wight Rifles. The statue itself was later defaced by a man described as insane, and has been left unrepaired. The tomb is only a memorial, the body was buried in Gaza, Palestine. The tomb isat the Western end of the Church.
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WE PRAY YOU COMMEND TO THE/ MERCY OF GOD THE SOUL OF/ CHARLES GRANT SEELY/ ELDEST SON OF SIR CHARLES/ SEELY, BARONET, AND DAME HILDA,/ HIS WIFE. BORN ON NOV. 29,/ 1894, AND EDUCATED AT CHEAM,/ ETON AND TRINITY COLLEGE,/ CAMBRIDGE, HE JOINED THE/ ISLE OF WIGHT RIFLES AT THE/ OUTBREAK OF THE GREAT WAR,/ AND, AFTER SERVING WITH/ DISTINCTION IN THE GALLIPOLI/ AND EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGNS, FELL/ GLORIOUSLY, THRICE WOUNDED,/ AT GAZA IN PALESTINE ON/ APRIL 19 1917, WHILE LEADING/ THE ADVANCE UPON THE/ TURKISH POSITION ~ ~ ~/ GREATLY BELOVED - FOR HE WAS/ A VERY GALLANT GENTLEMAN -/ HE LIES IN THE CEMETERY AT/ GAZA, SURROUNDED BY THE MEN/ OF HIS REGIMENT WHO FELL/ WITH HIM THAT DAY ~ ~ ~/ MIZPAH

Charles Grant Seely

Grade I (England)

1292758

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