Lieutenant Thomas Rowland Smith


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Reference WMO/295697

Address:

St John the Baptist Church

High Street

Tibshelf

DE55 5NU

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 Stone (any)
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A freestanding tablet forming a footstone on a family grave. The stone tablet and the headstone each have a botonné cross at the head and hollowed shoulders. The tablet is roughly dressed but has a finely dressed face bearing an inlaid inscription in mainly upright capital block lettering. The headstone and tablet are accompanied by oblong stone kerbs with broad chamfered faces but the long kerbs have been disturbed and one has been overturned. The headstone and kerbs have incised inscriptions in mixed styles of lettering. It is southeast of the church, between the bushes and the stone wall
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Headstone: In Loving Memory/ of/ ELLEN,/ WIFE OF JOHN SMITH,/ BORN AT QUARNDON SEPR. 10, 1828,/ DIED AT TIBSHELF DECR. 27, 1883./ YEA THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF/ THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL,/ FOR THOU ART WITH ME, THYROD AND THY/ STAFF THEY COMFORT ME. PSALM XXIII, 4./ ALSO OF/ JOHN SMITH,/ HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE,/ WHO DIED JANY. 22ND. 1903/ AGED 77 YEARS./ "I WILL GIVE YOU REST." MATT. XI.28.; Tablet (footstone): IN/ LOVING MEMORY OF/ LIEUT. THOMAS ROWLAND/ THE BELOVED SON OF/ GEORGE AND ANNIE SMITH./ NOTTS AND DERBYS, ATT 9TH CAMEL CORPS./ KILLED IN ACTION IN PALESTINE/ MARCH 31ST 1918. AGED 29 YEARS./ UNTIL THE DAY BREAK.; North kerb: ALSO GEORGE ALBERT SMITH,/ BORN AUG. 29TH. 1884, DIED MAY 30TH. 1950.

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