Second Lieutenant George Francis Edwin Holmes


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Reference WMO/294721

Address:

Uttoxeter New Road Cemetery

Uttoxeter New Road

Rowditch

Derby

DE22 3JB

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 Marble
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: An addition to a memorial on a family grave. The white marble headstone has a rounded arch top and a moulded border but has been detached from an oblong white marble base with a bevelled top. An inlaid inscription at the head is in mixed styles of upright capital lettering and a further one at the foot is incised in upright capital lettering. The base is accompanied by plain oblong white marble kerbs. It is near the southern edge of the cemetery about half way along the path.
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Head of stone: In/ Loving Remembrance of/ EDWIN HOLMES,/ WHO DIED SEPT. 14. 1922,/ Aged 61 years./ "A LIFE WELL LIVED,/ LEAVING FRAGRANT MEMORIES."/ AND OF HIS LOVED WIFE/ MARY HOLMES,/ AT REST MARCH 23RD. 1938./ ALSO OF/ GEORGE FRANCIS EDWIN,/ ONLY SON OF THE ABOVE,/ 2ND. LT. SHERWOOD FORESTERS,/ KILLED IN ACTION OCT. 25. 1916,/ Aged 26 years. Foot of stone: AND OF THEIR SON IN LAW/ FREDERICK DOUGLAS/ PAMPLIN,/ DEAR HUSBAND OF DAISY/ DIED 22. DEC. 1984.

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