Coplestone

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Reference WMO/294053

Address:

Overleigh New Cemetery

Overleigh Road

Handbridge

Chester

CH4 7HW

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: This war memorial includes work by, or attributed to, Eric Gill. War Memorials Trust recognises that Gill is a controversial artist. However, this website records war memorials so any artistic work should be considered as a war memorial. It commemorates those impacted by war, rather than being about the artists, craftspeople or contractors who created it. Links are provided via the Links tab for anyone seeking further information about Gill. The headstone commemorates Frederick Coplestone a newspaper proprietor who died in 1932. The inscription also commemorates his son the submariner Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Lewis Coplestone RN who was lost in the North Sea in 1914. And his son-in-law Commander A. F. Coplestone-Boughey RN who died in 1916 at Battle of Jutland. The memorial dates to 1934 by the sculptor Eric Gill. As the memorial is a headstone the inclusion of the names of those who died in World War I are an addition to gravestone as there is a body present.
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Grade II* (England)

1350324

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