James Brailsford


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Reference WMO/295057

Address:

St Leonard's Church

Main Road

Shirland

DE55 6BB

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 Granite
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: An addition to a headstone on a family grave. The memorial comprises a low battered granite headstone accompanied by oblong kerbs. The face of the headstone has raised oblong panels at each side and the inscription is inlaid between them in upright capital block lettering. It is near the northeast corner of the middle plot, near the end of Church Street. The A61 is called Chesterfield Road on some maps. Note that although the year of death is clearly 1943 on the gravestone it was actually 1942.
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IN LOVING [M]EMORY OF/ MY DEAR HUSBAND/ CHARLES BRAILSFORD/ DIED SEP. 3. 1941, AGED 66 YEARS./ ALSO HIS SON JAMES,/ DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE IN/ THE MIDDLE EAST [MAY 16. 1943,]/ AGED 25 YEARS./ AT REST.

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