Captain George Herbert Borough- Addition to family gravestone


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Reference WMO/293724

Address:

St Paul's Church

Vicarage Lane

Little Eaton

DE21 5EA

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 Sandstone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: An addition to a sandstone memorial on a family grave comprising a wheel cross with roughly dressed shaft on a square battered roughly hewn pedestal accompanied by roughly hewn oblong kerbs. The pedestal has incised inscriptions in upright capital block lettering in recessed dressed panels on the 6 o'clock face and 9 o'clock faces but that on the 9 o'clock face is partly spalled and illegible. It is Northwest of the church, north of the path.
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6 o'clock face of pedestal: HERE RESTS THE BODY OF/ ELIZABETH FOSTER BOROUGH./ WIFE OF JOHN BOROUGH./ DIED AUGUST 20TH. 1910,/ AGED 71./ "THEN ARE THEY GLAD/ BECAUSE THEY ARE AT/ REST, AND SO HE BRINGETH/ THEM UNTO THE HAVEN/ WHERE THEY WOULD BE/ PSALM CVII-V.30.; 9 o'clock face of pedestal: THIS NAME/ IS ADDED IN REMEMBRANCE/ GEORGE HERBERT BOROUGH/ CAPTAIN A.S.C.,/ SON OF JOHN BOROUGH,/ DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE/ NOV. 7TH. 1916./ AGED 44./ BURIED IN THE/ [...] CEMETERY [...]

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