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Monument Details
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Original: 4 large kerbstones with carved cornerstones; Scroll. Recent addition: Gallipoli stone. |
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Limestone Kerbstones: Letters. Scroll & Gallipoli stone: Engraved. |
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Gallipoli stone:45277 2nd Air Mechanic / E.G. Savage / Royal Flying Corps / 3rd February 1917 // Scroll: In Loving Memory / of / Edward George Savage / who passed away / Nov. 18th 1921 /Aged 63 years / Another gem in the Saviour's / crown Another soul in heaven. / Also of his wife / Eva Ann Savage / who died Dec. 21st. 1954 / Aged 84 years. // South kerbstone,outer slope: In Memory of / Edward G. Savage. Air Mechanic, died Feb. 3rd 1917 // South kerbstone,outer side: At Thornhill Hospital, Aldershot / Aged 20 years. // East kerbstone, outer top: "They shall be mine, // East kerbstone, outer slope: saith the Lord of Hosts, / in that day when I make up my jewels. //
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Kerbstones & Scroll partly covererd. Gallipoli stone, lichen cover. |
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ChNW30 |
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Edward George Snr was born in Marylebone but moved around as a child as his parents, who are buried in plot ChNWW16, were in service, his father as a butler and mother as a laundress. He qualified as a dentist in 1878 and was registed in July 1879 in Mansion House St & Market Place, Newbury, where he died leaving £135. Eva was born in Brightwalton to an Agricultural labourer. She died at her daughter, Dorothy Kelly's House, 1 Hilltop, Oxford Rd, Donnington leaving c£35 000. Edward George Jnr served in WW1 as an air mechanic in the RFC, dying in the Thornhill Military Isolation Hospital, Aldershot. Sources: Ancestry records. See also Military section on fnrc website for details of Edward George Jnr.
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01 November 2017 |
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EAC |
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