Private Charles Walter Priestley

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Reference WMO/265493

Address:

Thorpe Road Cemetery

Cemetery Lodge

229 Thorpe Road

Melton Mowbray

LE13 1SH

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Leaded
About the memorial: Addition to a gravestone. Private Walter Charles Priestley was serving with "B" Coy. 7th Bn. Cameron Highlanders when he was wounded and died on 5th August 1917. He is buried in the CWGC LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
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In / Loving Memory / Of / CHARLES HENRY / THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF / SARAH ANN PRIESTLEY / WHO DIED AUG 2ND 1920 / AGED 66 YEARS / LIGHT IS TAKEN FROM ...... / A VOICE WE LOVED IS ....... / /ALSO SARAH ANN / WIFE OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED FEB 21ST 1940 / ALSO CHARLES WALTER / SON OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE / AUG / AGED 31 YEARS / AUG 5TH 1917 / AGED 31 YEARS

Charles Walter Priestley

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