Walter John Hickingbotham

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Reference WMO/269535

Address:

Canwick Road Old Cemetery

Canwick Road / Washingborough Road

Lincoln

LN4 1EF

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
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Addition to grave marker- Double kerbed gravespace with on the left an obelisk to the Hickingbotham family and on the right a rock on base with ships anchor and cable dedicated to W. J. Hickingbotham Engineer of the RMS Persia
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Obelisk Front- IN MEMORY OF / JOHN WOODWARD / HICKINGBOTHAM / WHO DIED APRIL 22ND 1852 / AGED 67 YEARS ALSO OF MARTHA / WIFE OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED APRIL 2ND 1883 / AGED 75 YEARS / ALSO OF CHARLES / SON OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED FEBRUARY 28TH `1866 / AGED 20 YEARS. ; Left Side- IN MEMORY OF / THOMAS WHELPTON / HICKINGBOTHAM / WHO DIED OCTOBER 13TH 1900 / AGED 58 YEAR / ALSO OF / MARTHA GOODIER / WIFE OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED MARCH 20TH 1899 / AGED 54 YEARS.; Right Side- IN MEMORY OF / JOHN HICKINBOTHAM / WHO DIED MAY 24TH 1959 / AGED 97 YEARS / ALSO OF JANE / WIFE OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED MAY 20TH 1862 / AGED 86 YEARS / ALSO OF ELIZABETH E. / DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 27TH, 1957 / AGED 56 YEARS. Front- TO THE LOVED MEMORY OF / WALTER JOHN / ELDEST SON OF T.W. & M. HICKINGBOTHAM / WHO LOST HIS LIFE WHILE ON DUTY AS EMGINEER / ON BOARD THE P & O R.M.S. PERSIA / TORPEDOED AND SUNK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA . 30TH DEC. 1915, AGED 36 YEARS.; Right- IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF / FREDERICK CHARLES / YOUNGER BROTHER OF WALTER

HICKINGBOTHAM Walter John, Third Engineer. Mercantile Marine, S.S.Persia (Glasgow)

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