A number of family graves have memorial inscriptions to relatives of died in WW1. These soldiers and sailors were either buried overseas or elsewhere in the UK or there bodies never recovered. There may also be commemorated on in places like the Portsmouth Naval Memorial or local churches. The families of such people still wanted to commemorate them personally and close to home and so added inscriptions to the family graves. An example is Private Alfred Sharpe who was killed in action in 1918 and is buried at the Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France. Alfred Offer was killed on HMS Black Prince at the battle of Jutland in 1916. The map below shows the location of these memorials. Please see separate page for WW1 Commonwealth War Commission register burials.
Map showing the location of graves with inscriptions of remembrance to family members who died in WW1 but were buried elsewhere. The summary below included links to other pages on this website with detailed stories.
Some of these graves are shown below.
WW1 grave of Private R. C. Wood, killed in action in Ypres 1914, aged 27 years. Robert Charles Wood (1888-1814)WW1 cross memorial to Fredrick & Gordon Hicks, who gave their lives in the Great war. WW1 grave of Alfred Sharpe killed in action in France July 28th, 1916, age 33 years. Alfred SHARP (1886-1918)WW1 grave of Alfred Sharpe killed in action in France July 28th, 1916, age 33 years.
George Bell was killed at Mons 1914, age 33 years, and Percy Bell was killed at Neuve Eglise on March 19th, 1915, aged 22 years. Percy Bell (1893-1915)
Grave of Sidney Piper who died in France in 1919 shortly after the end of the war.
Many of the graves in the graveyard are in bad repair, either the inscriptions have been worn away by the passage of time and the action of ivy growing on them, and some have completely disintegrated.
