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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Chichester
- Town
- Boxgrove
- County
- West Sussex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 40076
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Current location
The Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaise
Church Lane
Boxgrove
Chichester
West Sussex
PO18 0ED
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 90830 07510
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- PLAIN TABLET IN THE FORM OF A BOOK, SURROUNDED BY LARGE WREATH AND SURMOUNTED BY GILDED FAMILY CRESTS AND COAT OF ARMS
- Inscription
- EN LA ROSE JE FLEURIS/ (LEFT) CHARLES/ HENRY GORDON LENNOX/ 8TH DUKE OF RICHMOND/ & GORDON M.V.O. D.S.O./ MAJOR IRISH GUARDS/ LT COLONEL SUSSEX YEOMANRY/ BORN 30TH DEC 1870/ SERVED SOUTH AFRICAN WAR/ DEPRIVED OF FURTHER ACTIVITY/ IN 1915 BY AN ILLNESS MOST/ GALLANTLY ENDURED UNTIL/ HE DIED 7TH MAY 1935 (RIGHT) CHARLES/ HENRY GORDON LENNOX/ LORD SETTRINGTON/ LIEUTENANT IRISH GUARDS/ BORN 26TH JAN 1899/ SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR/ LATER VOLUNTEERED FOR/ SERVICE IN NORTH RUSSIA/ WHERE HE DIED OF WOUNDS/ 24TH AUG. 1919
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barber, W G
Blunden, A
Boniface, J
Buckland, A
Caplin, R J
Fuller, H
Herrington, S
Howard, W
Lennox, Lord Bernard Gordon
Padfield, G
See details for all 15 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 1
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,relationships,additional
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Slate
- Tablet
- 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 - Sponsorship
- Private
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