Memorial

D Rafter

Daniel Rafter

Source: James Waters

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Current Location

Grange Cemetery, Black Horse Hill, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 6DS, England

SJ 22335 87105

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Type of Memorial: Addition to gravestone
WMR Reference Number: 117521
Description: Light grey stone with a smooth, flat topped panel standing slightly proud of two flat topped, semi-cylindrical columns. The columns each have panel containing relief carvings of fleurons' near their top. The body of the columns have deeply incised vertical lines running down them. The gravestone stands at the head of a plot bordered by low stone kerbs which are in poor condition, that at the foot being missing
Inscription: / ALSO DANIEL, / DEARLY LOVED ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE / LOST HIS LIFE BY THE SINKING OF / H.M.S. LAURENTIC, / 29TH JAN 1917 - AGED 28. /

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: Surname; Forename; Cause of death; Unit; Date of and age at death /

Gravestone

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Kerb stone

Made from: Stone

Condition: Poor