Captain Alan George Tritton

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Reference WMO/170452

Address:

St Mary the Virgin Church

Boreham Road

Great Leighs

Chelmsford

CM3 1PP

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:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Mounted on the inside north wall of the Nave of St Mary the Virgin Church is this Memorial to Alan George Tritton.A rectangular brass plaque, 1010mm x 510mm, with guilloche border; an inscription on the right hand panel and on the left panel the Coldstream Guards Garter Star surrounded by Battle Honours and surmounted by a Crown. The incised inscriptions are in black and red lettering.
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Right Panel: TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN ALAN GEORGE TRITTON, / COLDSTREAM GUARDS, / YOUNGEST SON OF / JOSEPH HERBERT AND LUCY JANE TRITTON OF LYONS HALL. / HE SERVED IN THE BOER WAR 1900 - 1902, / AND IN THE EUROPEAN WAR 1914. / KILLED IN ACTION NEAR BÉTHUNE. / BORN JANUARY 28 1882. DIED DECEMBER 26 1914. / TWICE 'MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES' and in the Left Panel, under the Garter Star badge: NULLI SECUNDUS (Second to None) / HIS BODY RESTS / IN A SOLDIER'S GRAVE NEAR / THE VILLAGE OF LE TOURET / 'TILL HE COME.'

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