Midshipmen of HMS Warspite

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Reference WMO/75492

Address:

St Ann's Church

Sunny Walk

Portsea

PO1 3NX

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Other
About the memorial: A brass plaque with repeating, leaf border around a trefoil arched centre, with crown & fouled anchor image at top and dedication below in black and red, uppercase, incised lettering, South West Corner of Church. This was the 5th ship of the name, not the WW1 vessel (the 6th ship of the name).
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THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY/ REAR ADMIRAL HOTHAM/ CAPTAIN LAMBTON AND OFFICERS OF/ HMS "WARSPITE"/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ RALPH CALDWELL/ BORN JUNE 21ST 1874/ HON ARTHUR A De MONMORENCY/ BORN OCTOBER 25TH 1874/ PERCIVAL AH BROWN/ BORN MARCH 7TH 1874/ DOUGLAS C JOHNSTONE/ BORN FEBRUARY 19TH 1874/ MIDSHIPMEN OF HMS "WARSPITE"/ WHO WERE DROWNED AT ESQUIMAULT/ JULY 17TH 1891/ "Ours are the tears, though few, sincerely shed,/ When ocean shrouds and sepulchres our dead"

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