Monument Details

 

  4 kerbstones
  Marble. Engraved
   
  South Kerbstone: Outer slope: In Loving Memory of Frank Walton who died September 3rd 1914 aged 38 years. // East Kerbstone, Outer slope: And of // North Kerbstone, Outer slope:Winifred, his wife, who died May 10th. 1914 aged 30 years. // West Kerbstone, Outer slope: "Brief life is here our portion." //
   
  Exhumed but liable to being covered by soil and vegetation again. North kerbstone cracked.
  ChNW41
    Frank Walton was born to Richard, a master clothier, & Fanny in Brighton, Sussex. He married Winifred Silvester in Ryde, Isle of Wight in 1903 & they had 3 children. Frank first worked as a Clothier's assistant aged 15 then was recorded as a Sergeant in the Royal Garrison Artillery in Newhaven, Sussex in 1911. Their two younger children were born in Hong Kong (during his military service?). When they died they were publicans at the Two Brewers Inn, Newbury. Frank left £184 to Winifred's sisters, Charlotte Silvester & Mrs. Agnes Barkham. Sources: Ancestry records.
   
  01 November 2017
  EAC
 

Persons named on this monument.

Frank Lewis WALTON  
Winifred WALTON  

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