Second Lieutenant Ernest Henry Wildgoose


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Reference WMO/293935

Address:

St Giles' Church

Church Street

Old Matlock

DE4 3BZ

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 Limestone
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Additional lettering on a headstone on a family grave. The upright oblong white marble and limestone headstone has a central plain tablet with fluted square pilasters to each side with acanthus leaves on the capitals. Above, a frieze and cornice are surmounted by a nowy-headed pediment with plain Latin cross at the head. The inscription is incised mainly in upright capital block lettering coloured black. The headstone surmounts a high base on a plinth and is accompanied by oblong kerbs. It is about 115 metres due west of the Church
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In Loving Remembrance of/ JOHN WILLIAM WILDGOOSE,/ THE DEARLY BELOVED HUSBAND OF/ SARAH WILDGOOSE,/ OF "HOLMEBANK," MATLOCK,/ WHO ENTERED INTO REST/ APRIL 28TH. 1923,/ AGED 61 YEARS./ ALSO/ ERNEST HENRY WILDGOOSE,/ 2ND. LIEUT. R.E./ SON OF THE ABOVE,/ WHO FELL IN ACTION AT LE VERGIEUR,/ MARCH 22ND. 1918,/ BELIEVED BURIED AT VENDELLES, FRANCE,/ AGED 24 YEARS./ ALSO OF THE ABOVE/ SARAH WILDGOOSE,/ AT REST/ MARCH 21ST. 1934,/ AGED 68 YEARS./ YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE/ VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I/ WILL FEAR NO EVIL: FOR THOU ART WITH ME.

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