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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- What's New 2012 -



Vereker Memorial
St James's Church, East Cowes


Robertson Memorial
St Catherine's Church, Ventnor


St Peter's Church, Havenstreet
Date of Addition Description and Location of Addition
20 December 2012 Added entry (with biographies) for
H.M.S. Royal Oak sinking (1939)
18 December 2012 Added biographies for
Walter Valson Baldwin of Shalfleet
Sidney Jack Augustus of East Cowes
17 December 2012 Added biography for
Harold Frank Vernon Wheway of Shanklin
4 December 2012 Added entries with biographical information men mentioned on additional inscriptions at St Mildred's Churchyard, Whippingham :

John Henry Barrett
Isaac Foss
Cecil Edward Wilkins
3 December 2012 Added biography for
Norman Albert Oliver Lale of Ventnor
1 December 2012 Added biography for
Alfred and Frank Rann of Whippingham
26 November 2012 Added biography for
George Dudley Austin Black associated with Seaview
20 November 2012 Added biography for
Arthur Maitland Byng associated with Ryde
15 November 2012 Updated the entry for the Lake War Memorial following the addition of D B Stebbing (died in Malaya 1952).
Lake War Memorial
Updated biography for
Derek Blundell Stebbing
15 November 2012 Updated the entry for the Plaques at the Parade, Cowes, for the
Diamond Jubilees of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II.
24 October 2012 Added entry for the Memorial window to
John Fane Charles Hamilton at Holy Trinity Church, Ryde. (New Zealand Wars of 1864).
18 October 2012 Added biographies for Shorwell men :
Charles Barton
James Cox
Frederick Charles Douse
18 October 2012 Added entry for additional inscription
to Charles Barton at Shorwell, St Peter's Churchyard
16 October 2012 Added entry for the Havenstreet Parish War Memorial
at St Peter's Church
18 September 2012 Added biography pages for half-brothers
Arthur Whittington and
George Edgar Whittington of Calbourne.
20 September 2012 Added biography for
Frederick Richard Willis of Brading.
19 September 2012 Added biographies for
Alfred Hugh Attrill of Godshill / Whitwell.
Lawrence George Deptford of Whitwell.
Edward Victor Kent of Lake / Sandown.
19 September 2012 Added biography for
Charles James Woodford of Chale.
18 September 2012 Added biography page for brothers
James George and Charles John Rayner of Chale.
17 September 2012 Added biography for
James George Osborn of Brisbane, formerly of Ryde.
10 August 2012 Added biography for
William George Judges Lamkin of Newport, served in WW I.
3 August 2012 Added entry for Florence and Hilda Norman (Civilian war dead)
Buried in Ventnor Cemetery
3 August 2012 Added biographies for 2 civilians killed in Ventnor air raids :
Russell, Frank Hollis Damp
White, Catherine Victoria
20 July 2012 Added biography for Arnold John Ferrari of Limerstone (evacuee from Portsmouth)
24 July 2012 Added biographies for 4 civilians killed in Ventnor air raids :
William Newbery
Ernest George Stickley
Gabrielle Marie Henriette Testa of London
Kate Bessie Ward
20 July 2012 Added biography for Leonard William Saunders of Ventnor
19 July 2012 Added entry for the War Memorial at Castlehold Baptist Church, Newport

together with biographies for the 19 men named on the Memorial
12 July 2012 Added or updated biographies for :
Joseph Andrew Bowers, of Ryde
Henry Francis Blackman, of Ryde
Walter Culip Blackman, of Ryde
John Robert Calver Currie, of Ryde
Kenneth Prouten, of Lake
11 July 2012 Added biography for Charles Cadwaladr Trevor-Roper, Captain, IW Rifles.
10 July 2012 Reformatted the biographies for men commemorated on the Shanklin War Memorial
7 July 2012 Added biographical details for 28 men who had attended Parkhurst / Hunnyhill Schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries :
WW I Casualties :
T F Arnold W J Grisley R P Hendicott F E Miller
F C Moth H W Newnham C A Parsons W G Peck
G H Puckett E E Rogers P A G Rogers A J Simmonds
E F Stark R P Warman C F Winn F L Yeates

WW II Casualties :
D F Abraham L R Bacon L Benfield K G Buckler
V A Fox R C Jackman L A Newnham J H Nutman
R W Stark R J Wendes B A Whittington G Woodmore
6 May 2012 Added biographical details for Gurney Sinclair Sutton of Ventnor and Ryde
6 May 2012 Added biography entry for Hugh Duppa Collins of Bembridge
5 May 2012 Added biography entry for John William Towers-Clark of Bembridge
3 May 2012 Added biography entry for Gilbert Sydney Newnham of Shanklin and Wroxall
3 May 2012 Added biography entry for Keith George Newnham of Ventnor
3 May 2012 Added biography entry for George Arthur Wallis of Wroxall
3 May 2012 Added entry for Memorial plaque to Alan Diarmid Campbell Robertson of Ventnor
2 May 2012 Added entry for additional inscription on family headstone to Leslie Frederick Downer of Mottistone
25 April 2012 Added biography entry for William John Curtis Millgate of Newport
25 April 2012 Added biography entry for Frank James Chiverton of Newport
25 April 2012 Added biography entry for William Arthur Sheppard of Ryde
24 April 2012 Added entry for the Scroll of thanks to Arthur Ernest Jackson of Niton
24 April 2012 Added entry for Andrew Edward Page (died 2006), buried at Niton
9 April 2012 Added biography entry for Wilfred Cyril Williams of Newport
9 April 2012 Added biography entry for Percy Clement March of Wroxall
5 April 2012 Added biography entry for George W Bowen associated with Lake
5 April 2012 Added biographical entries for the Ballard brothers (Oliver, Fred, Jack) of Lake
3 April 2012 Added biography entry for Charles Frederick Fryer of East Cowes
20 March 2012 Added biographical details for Ernest Charles Wheeler buried at Wroxall
20 March 2012 Added biography entry for Ernest Albert Westmore of Shide and St Lawrence
20 March 2012 Added biography entry for Herbert John Pascoe of Ventnor
19 March 2012 Added biography entry for John Thomas Leitch associated with Ventnor
12 March 2012 Added biographical details for Edwin Lewis of Lake
9 March 2012 Added biographical details for Ernest James White of Newport
9 March 2012 Added biography entry for Thomas Adolphus Dunning born in Godshill
9 March 2012 Added biographical details for Walter Carl Sloggett of Ventnor
9 March 2012 Added biography entry for Walter Albert William Davis of Ventnor
3 March 2012 Updated entry for Shanklin War Memorial to add Hawtrey brothers references and biographies.
13 February 2012 Added entry for the Additional Inscription to Alfred George Reeves at Newchurch All Saints Churchyard
13 February 2012 Added entry for the Great War Street Shrines (now lost) erected in the parish of Holy Trinity, Ventnor
13 February 2012 Added biography entry for John Stanley Hearn of Niton
13 February 2012 Added biography entry for Reginald Holland Rowell of Lake
10 February 2012 Added biography entry for William Tabor of Ryde and Ventnor
10 February 2012 Added biography entry for Alfred William Gomes of Alverstoke and Ventnor
10 February 2012 Added biography entry for John Owen formerly of Ventnor
9 February 2012 Updated entry for Robson Cameron Forster of Niton, with biographical details
8 February 2012 Added entry for the Farmar Memorial (Eagle Lectern) at Carisbrooke Castle St Nicholas Chapel
8 February 2012 Added biography entry for Francis Edward Lace of Ryde (killed in South African War)
8 February 2012 Added biography entry for Richard John Northway of Ryde (killed in South African War)
8 February 2012 Updated entry for the Isle of Wight College Roll of Honour : IW College at St John's Church, Oakfield, Ryde.
8 February 2012 Added entry for the Memorial plaque to William Reid Corson at St John's Church, Oakfield, Ryde.
7 February 2012 Added entry for the Memorial plaque to Violet Georgina Coombes at St John's Church, Oakfield, Ryde.
7 February 2012 Added biography entry for Percy Harold Limond Smith of Ventnor.
7 February 2012 Added biography entry for Sidney William Russell of Binstead.
7 February 2012 Added biography entry for Albert Henry Gladdis of South Wight.
7 February 2012 Added biography entries for :

Victor Jolliffe
Leonard Henry Prothero
Harry Edward Russell
Gilbert Sterling

of Bonchurch.
7 February 2012 Added biography entry for Frederick Andrews of Bonchurch.
6 February 2012 Added biography entry for George Robert O'Donnell of Ventnor.
5 February 2012 Added entry for R A H Plumley on the H.M.S. Hood page
4 February 2012 Added biography entry for Leonard Dalton Hayward associated with Ventnor.
30 January 2012 Updated entry for Gnr. Samuel Smith buried at Northwood Cemetery.
30 January 2012 Added biography entry for Harold Charles Hastings of Bonchurch.
30 January 2012 Added biography entry for William Frank Lawrence Snook of Shanklin.
30 January 2012 Added biography entry for brothers Frank Henry Draper and Charles Gilbert Draper of Ventnor.
16 January 2012 Added biography entry for George Ernest Dyer of Ryde.
9 January 2012 Added Roll of Honour of IW County Press Employees 1914 - 1920, listed in the IW County Press Jubilee booklet 1935
9 January 2012 Added 127 names for IW Football Association members who died during WW I, listed in the Handbook of the IW FA 1919-20
6 January 2012 Added entry for the Memorial plaque to Standish W P Vereker at St James's Church, East Cowes
2 January 2012
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