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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Chapel or Church: Restoration or extension
- District
- Torbay
- Town
- Torquay
- County
- Devon
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 25777
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Current location
IN THE PRIVATE CHAPEL
TORRE ABBEY
The Kings Drive
Torquay
Torbay
Devon
TQ2 5JE
England
OS Grid Ref: SX 910 650
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- NORTH AISLE OF THE CHURCH WAS BUILT WITH DEDICATORY NOWY-HEADED PLAQUE PLACED NEARBY FOLIATE BORDER ON THE PLAQUE
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF/ LIEUTENANT HENRY J. L. CARY/ OF THE DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT,/ DEARLY LOVED SON OF/ COLONEL LUCIUS CARY OF TOR ABBEY,/ AND OF BERTHA HIS FIRST WIFE./ HE DIED IN SOUTH AFRICA 2ND JANY 1901,/ DURING THE BOER WAR,/ IN HIS 29TH YEAR./ R. I. P.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,age of death,relationships
Order of information: Undefined
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown
- Plaque
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James 45 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
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