Memorial

Major A T W Constable

Tablet

Source: Copyright Susan Featherstone

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Current Location

On south wall of the nave., Holy Trinity Church, Chillies Lane, High Hurstwood, Wealden, East Sussex, TN22 4AB, England

TQ 49480 26490

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 17329
Description: A cream-coloured veined marble tablet with a white marble surround. A dark figure of an angel with raised arms is fixed to the tablet at top centre. The inscription is made of dark metal letters and numbers fixed to the tablet.
Inscription: IN MEMORY OF / ARCHIBALD THOMAS WYNNE CONSTABLE / MAJOR IN THE ESSEX REGIMENT / (THE POMPADOURS) / ONLY SON OF THOMAS CONSTABLE / VICAR OF THIS PARISH / AND OF AMY MARY ANNE CONSTABLE HIS WIFE / HE WHILST FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY / WAS WOUNDED IN THE TRENCHES BEFORE LOOS / ON OCTOBER 12TH 1915 / AND DIED ON THE 16TH OF THE SAME MONTH / AT THE AGE OF THIRTY TWO / HE WAS BURIED IN THE MILITARY CEMETERY / AT CHOCQUES PAS DE CALAIS. / IN AMOREM SEMPITERNUM. // (Note: these Latin words translate as 'In eternal love'.)

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: forename, surname, rank, regiment, relationship, place of wounding, date of wounding, date of death, age at death, place of burial

Plaque

Made from: Marble

Condition: Good