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    Memorial

    Harry Blades FITZJOHN

    Harry Blades FITZJOHN

    Source: Copyright Jane King

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    Current Location

    Entering the Cemetery from the Broadway gate, it is on the left side of the tarmac path, in the first row of headstones., Broadway Cemetery, Broadway, Peterborough, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1 4DD, England

    OS Grid Reference

    TL 19530 99535

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    Type of Memorial
    Addition to gravestone
    WMR Reference Number
    70027
    Description
    Rectangular headstone with lead lettering.
    Inscription
    In Ever Loving Memory/ of/ HARRY BLADES,/ FOURTH SON OF/ DANIEL & SARAH ANN FITZJOHN/ AND BELOVED HUSBAND OF/ ROSA FITZJOHN OF HUNTINGDON,/ WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION SEPT 23RD 1918/ IN HIS 30TH YEAR./ INTERRED AT BERTHENCOURT NEAR ST QUIENTEN./ "FOR ALL HIS LIFE WAS LOVE, AND YEARS TOUCH NOT/ THE LOVE THAT NEVER DIES"./ ALSO OF DANIEL, THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF/ SARAH ANN FITZJOHN,/ WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY ON JULY 16:1927,/ AGED 75 YEARS/ "HE IS NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPETH"./ AND OF SARAH ANN (SISS),/ BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE,/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE OCT: 30TH 1930,/ AGED 76 YEARS./ "ON THE RESURRECTION MORNING SOUL AND BODY/ MEET AGAIN"./ ALSO OF KATE ELIZABETH FITZJOHN,/ BORN FEBRUARY 8TH 1880,/ DIED DECEMBER 5TH 1946
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    1
    Died
    1
    Information shown
    Date of death, age and burial location.
    Additional Information
    CWGC records that Private H.B. Fitzjohn, regimental number 47763, of the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, died on 24/9/1918. He is buried in grave VI.A.8 at Bellicourt British Cemetery in France.
    Sponsor Type
    private

    Components

    Gravestone

    Height: 1450

    Width: 760

    Depth: 80


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Base

    Height: 120

    Width: 1070

    Depth: 260


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good