Richard (Dick) Frederick Robert Wake


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Reference WMO/292776

Address:

St Peter and St Paul Church

Church Street

Eckington

S21 4DY

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:
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
About the memorial: A wall-mounted nowy-headed brass plaque. At the head is an incised flory cross and below that is a cusped ogee arch with roses in the spandrels. In the arch is a motto on a ribbon and a family emblem and to each side are stylised columns. The incised inscription is in upright capital roman lettering infilled in black with selected rubricated initials. it is on the north wall of the Chancel.
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VIGILA ET ORA/ FROM A FEW OF HIS MANY SORROWING FRIENDS./ IN LOVING MEMORY OF "DICK" WAKE/ (YOUNGEST SON OF HERWALD CRAUFURD WAKE ESQ. CB./ AND LUCY CHARLOTTE HURT SITWELL)/ WHO FELL MORTALLY WOUNDED BY A BULLET/ FROM THE ARAB TRENCHES DEC 6TH. 1888/ WHILE FOLLOWING HIS PROFESSION AS AN ARTIST/ AT THE FRONT OF THE BRITISH POSITION AT/ SUAKIM CLOSE TO THE GAMAIZEH FORT./ HE DIED THE NEXT MORNING AGED 25 YEARS/ AND TWO MONTHS./ HE WAS MANLY MODEST AND GENTLE/ SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE.

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