Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Shepway
- Town
- Hythe
- County
- Kent
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 82230
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Current location
East wall of south transept
St Leonard's Church
Oak Walk
Hythe
Shepway
Kent
CT21 5DN
England
OS Grid Ref: TR 16150 34910
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- A square white tablet with a gable top on a pair of corbels, all on a black backboard. Black filled inscription
- Inscription
- SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / LIEUt COLONEL HENRY DEEDS, 34TH REGt / SON OF THE LATE WILLm DEEDS ESQr OF SANDLNG PARK / IN THIS COUNTY. / WHO DIED IN THE 48TH YEAR OF HIS AGE ON THE 26TH MARCH / 1848. ON BOARD H.M.S. BELLEROPHON. / WHILE ON HIS PASSAGE WITH HIS REGIMENT / FROM CORFU TO GIBRALTAR. / WHERE HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED // THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED / BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS, AS A MARK OF THEIR / ESTEEM AND REGARD. //
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Non-Combat Deaths
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surnname, regiment, age at death, date of death, place of death, place of interment
Order of information: Undefined
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: width c1,000mm
Materials: Undefined - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Backboard
- 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
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