Cleethorpes - John Arthur Searle

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Reference WMO/266475

Address:

The Cemetery

Beacon Road

Cleethorpes

DN36 8EQ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: :Celtic cross on short square column. Stands on 4 tier stepped base. Top stone inward inclined, bottom stone has chamfered top and two middle stones are square. Front of cross decorated with Celtic designs. Inscription in black lead lettering on top 3 stones of base and is weathered with many missing letters.
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In / Loving Memory Of / John Searle / Born April 10th 1843 / Died Jan 19 1910 / ’Gods Finger Touched Him And He Slept.” / Also Ellen Beloved Wife Of John Searle / Born Sept 4th 1850. Died Nov 18th 1917 / ’With God Which Is Far Better’ / Also John Arthur Searle / 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt Sherwood Foresters / Born Nov. 26th 1896, Died Of Wounds May 4th 1917, / Interred At Etretat, France. / ”Our Sons Have Shown Us God.”

Second Lieutenant. Searle, John Arthur. Died of wounds 04/05/1917. Aged 20. 1st Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Son of Henry F. and Sarah Jane Searle, of 178, Welholme Rd., Grimsby, Lincs. Buried at ETRETAT CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, I. E. 1.

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