Second Lieutenant Victor James Somerset French


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Reference WMO/66902

Address:

Brompton Cemetery

Fulham Road

Chelsea

SW10 9UG

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Other
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 stone monument on a family grave. Gravestone is formed of a plain wheel cross with square pedestal, square two stepped base and recumbent tablet adjacent to the base. A separate recumbent nowy headed tablet has incised badge at the head and inscription inlaid in mainly upright capital block lettering.
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6 o'clock face of pedestal: IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JAMES MURPHY,/ "NUNKIE"/ WHO FELL ASLEEP 17TH. AUGUST 1898,/ AGED 81 YEARS./ "AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH." REV. XXI. CH. 4. V./ "THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY COME." REV. XXII. CH. 17. V. 6 o'clock face of base: ALSO OF/ HARRIETT ISABELLA FRENCH./ DIED 14TH. JANUARY 1903. AGED 87 YEARS./ SISTER OF SIR SOMERSET RICHARD FRENCH K.C.M.G./ THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT. PSA. 23. Upper tablet: TO OUR DARLING GIRLIE/ NORAH VIOLET/ ONLY DAUGHTER OF/ SIR SOMERSET FRENCH. K.C.M.G./ AND LADY FRENCH. (NEE MURPHY)/ 24TH. OCTOBER 1893 - 1ST. JULY 1919./ "IS IT WELL WITH THE CHILD./ IT IS WELL." Lower tablet: ALSO TO OUR DARLING BOY/ (VICTOR JAMES SOMERSET) FRENCH/ 2ND. LIEUTENANT 1ST. BATTALION IRISH GUARDS./ WHO WAS (KILLED IN ... ...) FRANCE/ 10TH. OCTOBER 19(18)/ WHEN LEADING (A PATROL OF ADVANCED) SCOUTS./ (AGED 20.)/ BURIED AT CARNIERES./ (...) (Many letters missing) 9 o'clock face of pedestal: IN/ LOVING MEMORY OF/ DAME JOSEPHINE FRENCH./ DAUGHTER OF J. BEAUVAL MURPHY, R.N./ WIDOW OF SIR S. R. FRENCH, K.C.M.G./ BORN 17TH. MARCH 1867./ DIED 29TH. AUGUST 1930./ "TILL HE COME." 1 COR XI 26. 3 o'clock face of pedestal: IN/ LOVING MEMORY OF/ SOMERSET RICHARD FRENCH, K.C.M.G./ OF AYLWINS, MAYFIELD, SUSSEX/ BORN 1848/ C.P.O. LONDON 1866-80, CYPRUS 1878/ C.P.O. CAPE TOWN 1880/ P.M.C. CAPE COLONY 1892-1908/ AGENT-GENERAL FOR THE CAPE IN LONDON 1908-10/ PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY MAY 11TH. 1929./ UNTO THE UPRIGHT THERE ARISETH/ LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. PSALM 112(...)

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