Lieutenant Robert Oakley Vavasour Thorp MA MC

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Reference WMO/280746

Address:

St Maurice's Church

Ellingham

NE67 5EU

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: White marble oval tablet on black marble backboard. Incised inscription in black painted lettering. Family arms at top and Northumberland Fusiliers badge below inscription. All within a laurel wreath, on the north wall of the Chancel
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IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF/ WILLIAM TUDOR THORP. B.A. OXON/ OF CHARLTON HALL IN THIS PARISH, CLERK IN HOLY ORDERS/ 2ND SON OF THOMAS THORP AND ELISABETH JANE HIS WIFE/ BORN ALNWICK 25TH APRIL 1841, DIED CHARLTON HALL 11TH NOV. 1919. BURIED IN ALNWICK/ CEMETERY./ FOR 40 YEARS HE GAVE VOLUNTARY ASSISTANCE IN THE SERVICES OF THIS CHURCH./ ALSO OF HIS SON/ ROBERT OAKLEY VAVASOUR THORP. M.A. CANTAB M.C./ LIEUT. 3RD BATT. NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. ATTACHED 64TH TRENCH MORTAR BATTY./ BORN 5TH DEC. 1877. KILLED IN ACTION 22ND MARCH 1918 AT SAULCOURT NR. EPEHY, FRANCE./ "IN THY LIGHT SHALL WE SEE LIGHT." PS.36 V.9.

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