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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Church Fabric / Fitting: Lectern or desk
- District
- German
- Town
- St John's
- County
- Isle of Man
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Presented
Date: believed to be 1959
Attended by: Dr Fargher, uncle of the casualty
- Presented
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 84508
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Current location
Royal Chapel of St John the Baptist
Main Road
St John's
German
Isle of Man
IM4 3NA
Isle of Man
OS Grid Ref: SC 27897 81865
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Wooden Prayer desk with a brass dedication plaque. His CWGC citation indicates he may also have had connections with Wilmslow, Cheshire.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF/LIEUTENANT/ROBERT GEOFFREY FARGHER/1ST K.D.G./DIED OF WOUNDS 11TH JULY 1943
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Fargher, Geoffrey William
See details - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, regiment, manner of death, date of death
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Prayer desk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Prayer desk
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
Details: By his uncle - Reference
- Suite of Images- www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/222942/
- CWGC Citation- www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2048673/fargher,-robert-geoffrey/
- Single, overall, image (showing a chair which is not known to be part of the memorial!)- www.imuseum.im/search/place_record/view?id=mnh-site-213824&tab=all&from=0&term=robert+geoffrey+fargher&size=20&sort=&filter=&view=&images=&ttmgp=0&rfname=&rlname=&machine=&race=&raceyear=&linked=0&pos=0
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