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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- What's New 2011 -


Freshwater : Hooke memorial
Hooke memorial

Bembridge   Falklands 1982 / Andrew Swallow Memorial garden

Bembridge Falklands 1982 /
Andrew Swallow Memorial Garden



Ryde Town Additional Names Memorial
Additional Names
Memorial plaque Ryde


Sandown : John Wilkes, MP plaque

John Wilkes, MP, Sandown

Date of Addition Description and Location of Addition
16 December 2011
Added 3 entries for Memorial Plaques at St Catherine's Church, Ventnor.

See George Herbert Ford
See William Tozer
See Eric Leopold Charles Watkins

12 December 2011
Added 2 entries for Additional Inscriptions to war casualties at St Helen's Churchyard.

Also reorganised Churchyard index pages

See WW I casualties

9 December 2011
Added 12 entries for Additional Inscriptions to war casualties at Freshwater All Saints Churchyard.

Also reorganised Churchyard index pages

See WW I casualties
See WW II casualties

8 December 2011
Added Biography for Richard Albert Charles Murphy of Ventnor. See Biography
8 December 2011
Added Biography for Percy William Read of Newport. See Biography
6 December 2011
Added to and updated Biography for brothers Philip and Frederick Russell of Ventnor. See Biography
6 December 2011
Updated and added to Biography for brothers Beverley, Stephen and Richard Ussher of Ventnor. See Biography
29 November 2011
Added Biography for brothers Spencer John and Harold Eric White of Seaview and Ryde. See Biography
29 November 2011
Updated Biography for Richard Stanley Knott of Ryde. See Biography
29 November 2011
Added Biography for Fred Jackson formerly of Ryde. See Biography
24 November 2011
Added Biography for Herbert Daniel John Harvey of Ventnor. See Biography
23 November 2011
Added Biographies for Alfred Aubrey Tennyson and Harold Courtenay Tennyson of Freshwater. (Grandsons of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.) See Biographies
22 November 2011
Added Biography for Sydney James Knott of Newport. See Biography
22 November 2011
Added Biography for William Thomas Keynes of Ryde. See Biography
22 November 2011
Added Biography for George White of Bonchurch. See Biography
22 November 2011
Added Biography for Eynon Llewellyn Jones of Ventnor. See Biography
21 November 2011
Added Biography for Albert George Reginald Dennes of Ventnor. See Biography
21 November 2011
Added Biography for William George Humber of Ventnor. See Biography
21 November 2011
Added Biography for Theodore Algernon Drudge of Ventnor. See Biography
21 November 2011
Added Biography for Arthur Stanley Dixon of Ventnor. See Biography
21 November 2011
Updated entry for Thomas Geffrey Whitney buried at Parkhurst Military Cemetery, with newspaper report of his death. See T G Whitney
21 November 2011
Added Biography for George Frederick Milligan of Ventnor. See Biography
21 November 2011
Added Biography for Herbert Frank (Bert) Mills of Bonchurch. See Biography
21 November 2011
Added Biography for Harry Jacobs of Ventnor. See Biography
18 November 2011
Added Entry for Clement Victor Burden - additional inscription on family headstone at St Helens Churchyard
17 November 2011
Added Biography for Charles Ewart Cooper of Cowes. See Biography
15 November 2011
Added Links to the Armed Forces Memorial and Veterans UK records for those servicemen who died after the end of World War II :

C J Brading of St Lawrence
C J G Evemy of Chale
G Goulding of Carisbrooke
P S Grundy of Ryde
P E Sheppard of Wootton
J M Simonds of Bembridge
D B Stebbing of Sandown
A C Swallow of Bembridge

And these at Parkhurst Military Cemetery : W T Dummelow, A R Smith, L W Smith
15 November 2011
Added Biography for Derek Blundell Stebbing of Sandown. See Biography
15 November 2011
Updated Entries for burials and additional inscriptions at Brook St Mary's Churchyard

Including Carpenter, Cole, and Larkin-Smith
7 November 2011
Updated Entry for the Brading Roll of Honour at the Town Hall.

Not all of the names have been transcribed fully
11 November 2011
Added more documents and photographs for these two Old Rydeians :

W F Tudhope
D G Gribble
8 November 2011
Added Biography for Arthur Ernest Hebbes associated with Newport. See Biography
7 November 2011
Added Entry for the Freshwater Scouts Roll of Honour at Totland Bay.
5 November 2011
Added Biography for Fred Butcher of Brading. See Biography
5 November 2011
Updated entry for Sir Robin Duff, Bart (Bembridge) with newspaper reports, etc See Biography
5 November 2011
Added the names from the Burma Star Association Roll of Honour at St George's Church Arreton :

See Burma Star Memorial Window, Arreton.
4 November 2011
Added entries for Additional inscriptions on headstones at Ashey Cemetery for :

Graham Oliver Charles Maidment
Eugene Patrick O'Sullivan
4 November 2011
Added Biography for brothers Edward Selby and Stacey Wise noted on County and Ryde War Memorials. See Biography
3 November 2011
Updated entry for St Lawrence Church Roll of Honour
Added newspaper reports and recent photograph.
2 November 2011
Added Photos etc from Harrow School for Frank Reginald Seely See Biography
2 November 2011
Added Biography for John William Jenkins of Ventnor. See Biography
1 November 2011
Added Biography for Frank Wilfred Symmans of Ventnor and Freshwater. See Biography
1 November 2011
Added Biography for William Saunders of Bonchurch. See Biography
31 October 2011
Updated the entries for the Memorials at SS Mary & Rhadegund Church, Whitwell giving an account of the dedication service and more details of those commemorated on the Chancel Memorials

26 October 2011
Added Biography for Percy William Windebank of Ventnor. See Biography
26 October 2011
Added Biography for Edward Charles Morris Layton whose parents lived in Wroxall. See Biography
25 October 2011
Added Biography for Vernon Christopher Russell Caley of Sandown. See Biography
25 October 2011
Added Biography for Jim (James) Wheeler of Whitwell. See Biography
25 October 2011
Added Biography for Walter Nobbs of Ventnor. See Biography
25 October 2011
Added Biography for Joseph Sidney Wilkins of Portsmouth and Ventnor. See Biography
25 October 2011
Added Biography for Charles Basil Stanley Woodford of Ventnor. See Biography
25 October 2011
Added Biography for Albert Hodges of Shanklin. See Biography
25 October 2011
Added Biography for Archibald George Harber of Ventnor. See Biography
18 October 2011
Added Biography for John Sidwell Shotton of Croydon and Godshill. See Biography
11 October 2011
Added Biography for Charles Grant Seely of Brook and Gatcombe. See Biography
11 October 2011
Added Biography for Frank Reginald Seely of Brook. See Biography
11 October 2011
Updated Entry for James Lorimer buried at Ventnor. See Lorimer headstone
9 October 2011
Added Biography for Henry Montague Crutchley of Ventnor. See Biography
9 October 2011
Added Biography for Albert Nicholas Coxhead of Ventnor. See Biography
8 October 2011
Added Biography for James Herbert Brading of Ventnor and Alberta, Canada. See Biography
8 October 2011
Added Biography for Robert William Downer of Ventnor. See Biography
8 October 2011
Added Entry for the Robert Hooke Memorial at Freshwater
5 October 2011
Added Biography for Ronald Phillimore Dashwood of Ryde. See Biography
5 October 2011
Updated the Biography for George Luard Alexander of Ryde. See Biography
5 October 2011
Added Biography for Francis Louis Northway who attended school in Ryde (Isle of Wight College). See Biography
5 October 2011
Updated the Biography for Victor Nicholson born in Yarmouth. See Biography
5 October 2011
Updated the Biography for Sir Richard William Levinge, Bart born in Ryde. See Biography
5 October 2011
Added Biography for Adrian Victor Cree born in Sandown. See Biography
5 October 2011
Added Biography for Arthur William Balders of Ryde. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for George Charles Sholto MacLeod of Ryde. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for Matthew John Goldsborough Whittam of Ryde. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for Eric Leopold Charles Watkins of Ventnor. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for Laurence John Francis Rhydding (Frank) Ridding of Shanklin. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for Henry Charles Spencer of Shanklin. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for Charles Octavius Hollis of Ventnor. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for Thomas Gawn of Ryde. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for William Henry Drudge of Ventnor. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for Herbert Westrup Canton of Ventnor. See Biography
4 October 2011
Added Biography for Edwin George Dimmer of Ventnor. See Biography
30 September 2011
Added Biography for Charles White of Sandown. See Biography
30 September 2011
Added Biography for Adolphus Roy Ballard of Lake. See Biography
29 September 2011
Added Biography for George Henry Chick of Whitwell. See Biography
29 September 2011
Added Biography for Alfred William Roach of Whitwell. See Biography
27 September 2011
Added Biography for Edmund Emerson Bousfield whose parents lived in Bonchurch. See Biography
12 September 2011
Added Biography for Bernard Dabell formerly of Chale. See Biography
12 September 2011
Added Biography for Tholbourne John (Jack) Cook of Wroxall. See Biography
12 September 2011
Added Biography for Frederick Charles Motley Raymond of Newport. See Biography
12 September 2011
Added Biography for the Watson Brothers of Seaview. See Biography
12 September 2011
Added Biography for Alexander Young Young-James of Newport. See Biography
10 September 2011
Added Biography for the Ratsey Brothers of Cowes. See Biography
9 September 2011
Added Biography for Graham Chard Loader of Shanklin and Newport (Captain, IW Rifles). See Biography
8 September 2011
Updated Biography for George Leopold Woodford of Bembridge, formerly of Bonchurch. See Biography
8 September 2011
Added Biography for Arthur Holmes Gore of London (Captain, IW Rifles). See Biography
7 September 2011
Added Biography for Hubert Richard William Meager formerly of Newport. See Biography
7 September 2011
Added Biography for Richard Courtenay Powell Derry of Ryde, formerly Ventnor. See Biography
6 September 2011
Added Biography for Reginald Brandt (Rex) Arnell of Sandown. See Biography
4 September 2011
Added Details of the Newport Air Raid on 7 April 1943 See Event Report
3 September 2011
Added Biography for John Joseph Malcolmson of Ventnor. See Biography
3 September 2011
Added Biography for Ernest Hastings Lewis of Ryde. See Biography
1 September 2011
Added Biography for Albert Victor Batten of Ventnor (Fulham). See Biography
1 September 2011
Added Biography for Henry James Rayner of Ventnor. See Biography
31 August 2011
Added Biography for Harry Edmund Dore of Ventnor. See Biography
31 August 2011
Added Biography for Leslie James Ewens of Ventnor. See Biography
31 August 2011
Added Biography for Percy Beattie-Crozier of Wroxall. See Biography
30 August 2011
Added Biography for Herbert George Carpenter of St Lawrence. See Biography
29 August 2011
Added Biographies for the Fetherstonhaugh brothers of Ryde. See Biography
27 August 2011
Added Biography for Kenneth Woodnutt Dudley of Newport. See Biography
27 August 2011
Added Biography for Basil Arthur Whittington of Newport. See Biography
27 August 2011
Added Biography for William James Jennings of Newport. See Biography
27 August 2011
Added Biography for George Patrick Mayo of Freshwater and Ventnor. See Biography
27 August 2011
Added Biography for William Thomas Smith of Ventnor. See Biography
26 August 2011
Added Biographies for the Ussher brothers sons of the Rev Richard Ussher sometime of Ventnor. See Biographies
24 August 2011
Added Biography for Charles Ash of Ventnor and Wroxall. See Biography
18 August 2011
Added Biography for Edwin Harry (Jack) Coates of Shanklin (born in Sudbury, Suffolk). See Biography
18 August 2011
Added Biography for Charley Ellman Blake of Newport, Cowes and Ryde. See Biography
18 August 2011
Added Biography for Ronald McDougall of Blackheath and St Lawrence. See Biography
18 August 2011
Added Biography for Sidney Charles Trowbridge of Ventnor. See Biography
18 August 2011
Added Biography for Jesse Mills of Ventnor (born in Bognor). See Biography
18 August 2011
Added Biography for Eustace William Albert Kite of Newport. See Biography
17 August 2011
Added Biography for William Axhorn of Ventnor. See Biography
17 August 2011
Added Biography for Alfred Edward Groves of Ventnor. See Biography
17 August 2011
Added Biography for Richard de Rupe Roche born in Ventnor, latterly lived in Surrey. See Biography
16 August 2011
Added Biography for Reginald George Squibb of Godshill. See Biography
16 August 2011
Added Biography for Frederick Charles Sheath of Ventnor. See Biography
16 August 2011
Added Biography for John Frederick Symmans of Ventnor. See Biography
16 August 2011
Added Biography for Richard Douglas Wightman of Ventnor. See Biography
16 August 2011
Added Biography for James Henry Salter of Ventnor.
See Biography
Revised Biography for Albert Victor Salter of Ventnor.
See Biography
16 August 2011
Added Biography for Edward William Belcher of Newport. See Biography
16 August 2011
Added Biography for Alan Diarmid Campbell Robertson of Ventnor. See Biography
16 August 2011
Added Biography for Francisco Lake of Ventnor. See Biography
15 August 2011
Added Biography for George Henry Bush of Ventnor and Shanklin. See Biography
15 August 2011
Added Biography for Arthur Burchett (Arthur Vine) of Ventnor. See Biography
15 August 2011
Added Biography for Victor Dennes of Ventnor. See Biography
15 August 2011
Added Biography for Harry Philip Holbrook of Bembridge. See Biography
12 August 2011
Added Biography for James Wyllie Raeburn of Newport and Vancouver, BC. See Biography
12 August 2011
Added Biography for Edward Harold Clayton of Ventnor. See Biography
12 August 2011
Added Biography for Beauclerc Leigh Beckingsale of Newport. See Biography
10 August 2011
Added Biographies for brothers Clifford Roy and Thomas King of Ventnor. See Biography
10 August 2011
Added Biography for Cyril George Petchey of Whitwell. See Biography
8 August 2011
Added Biography for Francis Morgan Russell of Whitwell and Ventnor. See Biography
8 August 2011
Added Biography for Reginald George Williams of Ventnor. See Biography
8 August 2011
Added Biography for Ernest George Primmer of Ventnor. See Biography
8 August 2011
Added Biography for Henry George Primmer of Ventnor. See Biography
4 August 2011
Added Biography for Thomas Bird Cheverton of Newport. See Biography
4 August 2011
Added Biography for Charles Bertie Simpkin of Ventnor (originally from Leicester). See Biography
3 August 2011
Added Biography for Henry Edward Sewell whose aunts lived in Bonchurch. See Biography
3 August 2011
Added Biography for James Harold Taylor of Ventnor. See Biography
2 August 2011
Added Biography for George Edward Manning formerly of Ventnor (emigrated to Toronto, Canada). See Biography
2 August 2011
Added Biography for George Allan Barfoot of Ventnor / St. Lawrence. See Biography
13 July 2011
Added Biography for John Thomas Snooke of Ventnor. See Biography
12 July 2011
Added Biography for Walter James Burden of Ventnor. See Biography
12 July 2011
Added Biography for Albert John Walter Eldridge of Niton. See Biography
10 July 2011
Added Biography for Frederick Arthur Campbell formerly of Ventnor. See Biography
23 June 2011
Added entries for Green Plaques in East Cowes
See Sir Christopher Cockerell
See Henry House - "Furious Driving"
See Freddie Attrill - The Shell House
23 June 2011
Added more entries for Blue Plaques in Ventnor
See Earl Jellicoe
See Steephill Castle
See Ventnor Station
20 June 2011
Added Biography for George Henry Russell of Bonchurch. See Biography
20 June 2011
Added Biography for George Hitchman of Bonchurch. See Biography
20 June 2011
Added Entry for the Andrew Swallow Memorial Garden at Bembridge.
17 June 2011
Added Biography for Dudley George Gilbert of Ventnor. See Biography
17 June 2011
Added Biography for Philip St John Gilbert of Ventnor. See Biography
17 June 2011
Added Biography for William John Stripp of Ventnor. See Biography
17 June 2011
Added Biography for Percival Cyril Channing of Ventnor. See Biography
17 June 2011
Added Biography for William Greatbatch Boxall formerly of Ventnor. See Biography
16 June 2011
Added Biography for Richard Alfred White formerly of Ventnor. See Biography
16 June 2011
Added Biography for Jack Morris of Wroxall. See Biography
16 June 2011
Added Biographies for Glaire brothers of Ventnor.
See Biography for Charles Glaire
See Biography for George Glaire
16 June 2011
Added Biography for Harry Young of Ventnor. See Biography
31 May 2011
Added Biography for Warren brothers (Archibald, Edgar and Reuben) of Ventnor. See Biography
31 May 2011
Added Biography for Edward Lawrence Young of Ventnor. See Biography
31 May 2011
Added Biography for George Edward Harbourne of Bonchurch. See Biography
31 May 2011
Added Biography for Albert Saunders of Ashey (formerly of Thorley). See Biography
31 May 2011
Added Biography for Harold Whittington of Ashey and Ryde. See Biography
31 May 2011
Added Biography for Albert A H Dennis of Ventnor. See Biography
30 May 2011
Added Biography for Charles Cosh of Bonchurch. See Biography
17 May 2011
Added Entry for John Wilkes, MP (Sandown Blue Plaque) : See John Wilkes plaque
17 May 2011
Added Biography for Dudley Hammond Black of Ventnor : See Biography
17 May 2011
Added Biography for Joseph Henry Macdonald Beavis of Ventnor : See Biography
17 May 2011
Added Biography for Albert Edward Maurice Harding of Ventnor : See Biography
17 May 2011
Added Biography for George McGonnell of Ventnor : See Biography
13 May 2011
Reorganised and augmented the Ventnor Blue Plaques section, which now has its own index page at

Ventnor Blue Plaques

Not all the Ventnor Blue Plaques have been documented; about 6 have still to be visited.
12 May 2011
Added or updated Biographies for Edmund Albert Henry Scovell and Wilfred Alban Scovell of Ventnor :
See Edmund Scovell Biography
See Wilfred Scovell Biography
12 May 2011
Added Entry for K.M.S. Coghill Memorial St Catherine's Church, Ventnor
12 May 2011
Added Entry for T.A. Drudge Memorial St Catherine's Church, Ventnor
12 May 2011
Added Biography for George Herbert Ford of Ventnor : See Biography
12 May 2011
Added Biography for Alfred Adolphus Farrow of Ventnor : See Biography
12 May 2011
Added Biography for the Dyer brothers (Charles James, Arthur William, Albert) formerly of Ventnor : See Biography
11 May 2011
Added Biography for Harold Lisle Loveridge of Wroxall and Ventnor : See Biography
11 May 2011
Added Biography for Harold Philip Jenkin of Wroxall and Ventnor : See Biography
11 May 2011
Added Biographies for John (Charlie) Hickens and William Hickens of Ventnor :
See John Hickens Biography
See William Hickens Biography
2 May 2011
Added Biography for James William Godsell of Ventnor : See Biography
2 May 2011
Added Biography for Clement Walter Creed of Niton : See Biography
2 May 2011
Added Biography for Frederick Stephen Richards of Niton : See Biography
2 May 2011
Added Biography for Thomas Rayner of Ventnor : See Biography
2 May 2011
Added Biography for Frank Baker of Niton : See Biography
1 May 2011
Added Biography for Edgar William Wallis of Wroxall : See Biography
1 May 2011
Added Biography for Owen T Musselwhite of Bembridge : See Biography
1 May 2011
Added Biography for Francis John Hess of Ventnor : See Biography
28 March 2011
Added Biography for William James Bush of East Cowes : See Biography
8 March 2011
Added 22 further entries for WW I and WW II casualties commemorated by
additional inscriptions on Grave Markers at Sandown Christ Church Churchyard
13 February 2011
Added entry for the Additional Names Memorial plaque at Ryde Town Hall (P S Grundy)
31 December 2010


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Go to "What's New 2006" for previous updates in 2006

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Freshwater : Scouts Roll of Honour
1st Freshwater Scouts Roll of Honour

K M S Coghill Memorial
K M S Coghill
Memorial plaque Ventnor

T A Drudge Memorial
T A Drudge
Memorial plaque Ventnor




 
 

 
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