Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Whippingham -
- St Mildred's Church Hessian Soldiers Memorial -

Location

In St Mildred's Church, Whippingham, Isle of Wight, PO32 6LP.
 
See map on www.streetmap.co.uk
 
National Inventory of War Memorials Record

Link : NIWM Reference 40873  
 
English Heritage Listing Status

St Mildred's Church is Grade I Listed. Since the Memorial forms part of the fittings of the Church, is it assumed that it is included within the Listing.
 
Description

Plaque commemorating German soldiers who died in 1794 whilst held on ships off the Isle of Wight.

The names of those who died are held in the Whippingham visitors centre near the Church.
Memorial

Whippingham St Mildred's Church Hessian Memorial
 
Inscription


To the honoured memory of eighty four
Hessian soldiers of the Regiments
Prinz Carl Lossburg and Gendarmes, also
of the Fusilier Battalion Prueschenk
who died of disease in the Isle of Wight
during the campaign of 1794, and
were buried in Whippingham Churchyard

This tablet is placed here by
The Landgraf A F of Hesse
April 1906


 

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