Henry Roberts Carpenter

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Reference WMO/285060

Address:

St Mary's Church

South Street

Bridport

DT6 3NW

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)
About the memorial: White Marble tablet on a slate backboard , straight sides with a stepped base , sloped pediment with a heraldic lion. the lettering incised and coloured black. He was not killed in action, but on active service during the wars against France.
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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/CHARLOTTE CARPENTER/....../ALSO OF HENRY ROBERTS /ELDEST SON OF THE SAID THOMAS AND CHARLOTTE CARPENTER/AGED ABOUT 14 YEARS/A MIDSHIPMAN ON BOARD H M S SCOUT SLOOP OF WAR/WHICH FOUNDERED AT SEA IN NOVEMBER 1801 ON THE BANKS /OF NEWFOUNDLAND IN HER VOYAGE TO HALIFAX IN NOVA SCOTIA /WHEN ALL HANDS PERISHED /...../This tablet erected in grateful recollection/...../by her youngest and only surviving son /now a field officer in the Madras Army /and serving in the East Indies /Bridport December 1841

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