Lieutenant Henry Scawen Wyndham

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Reference WMO/175166

Address:

Petworth House

Church Street

Petworth

GU28 0AE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other structure/building
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A Doric Temple in the Pleasure Grounds was rededicated to the memory of Henry Wyndham by his parents. Henry was the eldest son of Edward, 5th Lord Leconfield, and heir to Petworth House and Park. His father and two uncles fought in the First World War with the 1st Life Guards; there is a plaque commemorating their service, including that of his uncle Reginald Wyndham, who died at Ypres in 1914, in the Chapel at Petworth House. The memorial takes the form of a white stone oval plaque on top of a square plinth set into the wall of the Doric Temple. Words incised into stone. Oval is topped with Wyndham crest and, below, insignia of 9th Lancers at the centre of eight stone lances draped with banners. Very ornate oval plaque sits on a simple square plinth. The text on the plinth is from a Victorian children’s book called ‘Jackanapes’ by Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-85).
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[oval plaque upon a plinth] In memory of / HENRY SCAWEN / WYNDHAM / a lieutenant in the 9th Lancers / Very dearly loved eldest son of / Colonel The Hon Edward Wyndham, D.S.O. / & Gladys his wife. Who while following / the tradition of his family was killed / in action when taking part in the 8th / Army’s great victory of El Alamein / on October 28th / 1942 [second plaque on plinth] There be things the good of which / and the use of which are beyond / all calculation of worldly goods or / early uses; things such as Love / and Honour and the Soul of Man / which cannot be bought with price / and do not die with Death.

Henry Scawen Wyndham

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