- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 11672
- Description
- In the Crypt, Nelson Chamber, a brass wall panel with memorial inscription in the central panel, the border panels engraved with a variety of images. The memorial inscription is infilled in black with a red bead and reel border. the frame panels have red and green infill and represent: (at the sides) a continuous decoration of urns and plants; (at the top) an anthemion frieze and central cross suurrounded by a wreath and inscribed ribbons; (at the base) a lozenge with 'ihs' inscribed surrounded by inscribed ribbons and plants; at the corners are panels showing (upper left) a book on a stand and a candlestick; (upper right) military objects; (lower left) a sinking sailing boat; (lowere right) a weeping Britannia. The brass plaque is fixed by a grey and red striated marble back panel to the wall
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF THREE BRAVE MEN/ PROFESSOR EDWARD HENRY PALMER,/ FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE/ LORD ALMONER'S READER IN ARABIC AND/ A SCHOLAR AND LINGUIST OF RARE GENIUS./ CAPTAIN WILLIAM JOHN GILL, R.E./ AN ARDENT AND ACCOMPLISHED SOLDIER/ AND A DISTINGUISHED EXPLORER./ LIEUTENANT HAROLD CHARRINGTON/ R.N. OF H.M.S. EURYALUS, A YOUNG OFFICER OF HIGH PROMISE./ WHO WHEN TRAVELLING ON PUBLIC DUTY/ INTO THE SINAI DESERT WERE TREACHEROUSLY/ AND CRUELLY SLAIN IN THE WADY SADR/ AUGUST 11TH (?) MDCCCLXXXII/ THEIR REMAINS AFTER THE LAPSE OF/ MANY WEEKS HAVING BEEN PARTIALLY/ RECOVERED AND BROUGHT TO ENGLAND/ WERE DEPOSITED HERE WITH CHRISTIAN/ RITES APRIL 6TH MDCCCLXXXIII./ THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED BY THE COUNTRY IN WHOSE SERVICE THEY/ PERISHED TO COMMEMORATE THEIR NAMES/ THEIR WORTH AND THEIR FATE./ THAT TRAGIC FATE WAS SHARED BY TWO/ FAITHFUL ATTENDANTS THE SYRIAN KHALIL/ ATIK AND THE HEBREW BAKHOR HASSUN/ WHOSE REMAINS LIE WITH THEIRS/ "Our Bones lie scattered before the Pit/ as when one breaketh and cleaveth Wood upon the Earth but our eyes/ look unto Thee O Lord God" Ps 141