Lance Corporal Joseph Maurice Brown


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Reference WMO/294541

Address:

Ripley Cemetery

Cemetery Lane

Ripley

DE5 3JG

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 Marble
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A white marble tablet on a family grave. The grave has a low headstone with an undulating curve top, canted shoulders and an inlaid inscription in decorative upright capital lettering. The grave also bears a recumbent tablet in the style of an unfurled scroll bearing an inlaid inscription in a similar style, and it is this that bears the memorial. The grave also has oblong limestone kerbs with a further inscription and the maker's reference inlaid at the foot. It is towards the eastern end of the cemetery.
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Headstone: IN/ LOVING/ MEMORY/ OF/ JOHN WHARMBY/ DIED DEC. 17. 1910, AGED 83 YEARS./ ALSO MARY, HIS WIFE/ DIED APRIL 30. 1916, AGED 81 YEARS./ FAITHFUL TO THE END; Tablet: IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ LANCE CORPORAL/ JOSEPH MAURICE BROWN,/ 1ST/1ST. DERBYSHIRE IMP. YEOMANRY/ (OF STREET LANE),/ WOUNDED AT GALLIPOLLI AUG. 21/ AND DIED AUG. 23, 1915./ AGED 23 YEARS./ THE BELOVED SON OF/ ABRAHAM & CATHERINE BROWN/ AND GRANDSON OF/ JOHN & MARY WHARMBY./ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN/ THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS./ DUTY NOBLY DONE.; East kerb: HE BORE HIS CROSS PATIENTLY/ AND [PASSED AWAY] IN PEACE. [Some letters lost or damaged.] Foot of kerbs: NO. 98.

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