Memorial
Lt B Reid RN
Current Location
Holy Innocents Chapel - West Wall, St Giles Church, Off Bury Lane, Codicote, North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, SG4 8XY, England
OS Grid Reference
TL 219 188
Denomination
Church of England
Names listed on this memorial
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- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 65996
- Description
- A large stone tablet with a dedicatory inscription, and detail of an anchor and rope at the top of the tablet. There are ropes and pulleys at each side.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF BARKLY REID/ LIEUT. OF H.M.S. "JAMES WATT"/ ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM REID, ESQRE/ OF THE NODE IN THIS PARISH/ WHOSE DEATH WAS CAUSED BY A FALL FROM HIS HORSE/ AT CANEA, ISLE OF CANDIA,/ ON THE 7TH OF MAY 1861/ IN THE 23RD YEAR OF HIS AGE/ HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THE/ ENGLISH CEMETERY AT MALTA/ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED/ BY THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS OF THE "JAMES WATT"/ AS A MARK OF ESTEEM FOR THE MANY GOOD QUALITIES/ BY WHICH HE ATTACHED HIMSELF TO THEM.
- War
- Military Service
- Number Commemorated
- 1
- Died
- 1
- Information shown
- Forename, surname, rank, regiment, manner of death, date of death, age of death, place of burial, additional
Components
- Tablet
Made from: Stone
Condition: Good
- A Guide to St. Giles' Church, Codicote, 4th edn., Nicholas Maddox (1989), p. 14.