Memorial

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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Memorial Details

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

Commemoration

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.

History

Sponsor Type: private

Conservation

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