Bayfordbury

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Reference WMO/282368

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Bayfordbury Estate

Sailor's Grove

Bayfordbury

SG13 8HS

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Outside - hilltop/field/countryside
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • 19th Century Wars
About the memorial: A tall fluted Doric column with draped fluted urn on top, swags of oak leaves in panelled sides of square block under the column base, on top of tall square pedestal with elongated carved consoles set diagonal at each angle, guilloche carved band to capping and moulded base raised on 3 high stone steps (quoted from British Listed Buildings website). Monument believed constructed c. 1804, principally as a memorial to members of the Baker family, former owners of the Bayfordbury estate. One of the Baker family remembered was Henry Baker, commander of a Royal Navy sloop who (along with five others) lost their lives at sea during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. A later inscription (probably on the face of a step) commemorates Lt. Col. Osbert Clinton-Baker, killed at Fromelles in 1915.
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From WMR/28306: North face - THIS MEMORIAL OF / PRIVATE AFFECTION AND OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT / IS INSCRIBED / TO HENRY BAKER, COMMANDER OF H.M. SLOOP PELICAN, / WHO WITH JOHN DAVIS, HIS FIRST LIEUTENANT, AND / FOUR OTHER MARINERS, UNFORTUNATELY PERISHED / ON THE 9TH JUNE 1804, / OFF MORANT BAY IN THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA, / IN RESCUING FROM DESTRUCTION / THE ENTIRE CREW OF A SPANISH SCHOONER, / THEN FOUNDERING AT SEA. / Lower plinth west face - TO THE RECORD UPON THIS COLUMN OF BRAVE MEN FROM BAYFORDBURY, THIS ADDITION IS MADE IN 1915 BY HENRY CLINTON BAKER, IN MEMORY OF HIS BROTHER, OSBERT CLINTON BAKER. JOINED THE 1ST ROYAL IRISH RIFLES IN 1890. AFTER SERVICE IN THE BOER WAR, IN INDIA AND BURMAH, HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS KING AND COUNTRY IN FLANDERS, ON MAY 9TH 1915 IN COMMAND OF HIS REGIMENT AS LIEUT. COLONEL, HE FELL AT FROMELLES, WHEN GALLANTLY LEADING HIS MEN, AND HELPING OTHERS LESS POWERFUL THAN HIMSELF TO CLIMB THE UNCUT BARBED WIRE. A GREAT DEATH FOR A GREAT CAUSE. BORN SEPTEMBER 25TH 186(?)9(?). DIED MAY 9TH 1915.

Henry Baker, John Davis, Osbert Clinton-Baker

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