A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC and other Headstones -
- Carisbrooke Mount Joy Cemetery : Roland Allen Bird -

Location

In Mount Joy Cemetery, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Additional inscription on family headstone.
Headstone

Mount Joy Cemetery : R A Bird
 
Inscription

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
HENRY JAMES BIRD
ARMY SCHOOL MASTER 1871 - 1903
WHO DIED 22ND JANUARY 1915
AGED 68

ALSO OF
ROLAND ALLEN
YOUNGEST SON OF THE ABOVE
SERGEANT 1ST HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM
21ST MARCH 1915
AGED 21

GOD TAKES OUR LOVED ONES FROM OUR
HOMES BUT NEVER FROM OUR HEARTS

ALSO OF REBECCA BIRD
WHO DIED 13TH JUNE 1936
AGED 78 YEARS


 
Further Information

CWGC record ...
 
Note that CWGC gives date of death as 22 March 1915
 


Isle of Wight County Press, 21 Nov 1914



Mount Joy Cemetery : R A Bird
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Page last updated : 13 Jan 2015 (added newspaper report)


 
 

 
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