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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Newport
- Town
- Newport
- County
- Gwent
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- Napoleonic Wars (1803-1814)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 3684
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Current location
St Marys Church
Stow Hill
Newport
Newport
Gwent
NP20 1HF
Wales
OS Grid Ref: ST 31037 88049
Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description
- Marble tablet shaped as a scroll surrounded by a lancet wood frame with a marble eagle on top.
- Inscription
- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF STEPHEN CARR ESQ/ 87TH ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS/ WHO/ FOR 44 YEARS SHARED IN THE GLORIES OF THE REGIMENT/ AT TALAVERA, TARIFA AND AT BARROSA/ THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS WELLINGTON/ IN SPAIN PORTUGAL AND FRANCE SUBSEQUENTLY IN THE EAST INDIES/ AND BURMAH AND DIED AT THE AGE OF 62 YEARS AT NEWPORT/ MONMOUTHSHIRE 22ND MAY 1847/ BELOVED AND ESTEEMED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM IN THE HUMBLE HOPE/ "THAT ZEALOUS AND EVER READY IN ALL HIS DUTIES WHILE ON EARTH/ HE WILL BE FOUND NOT UNPREPARED FOR THE LAST DREAD TRUMPET/ THROUGH THE MERITS OF A MERCIFUL REDEEMER"/ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY BY HIS AFFECTIONATE AND/ BEREAVED WIDOW JANE CARR WHO IS LEFT TO DEPLORE HIS LOSS/ HIS MORTAL REMAINS INTERRED IN STOW CHURCH YARD
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Carr, Stephen
See details - Commemorations
- Napoleonic Wars (1803-1814)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forename, surname, rank, regiment, age of death, place of death, date of death
Order of information: Undefined
- Napoleonic Wars (1803-1814)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Alabaster
- Tablet
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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