Launde Abbey Chapel - Launde
Crimean War (1853-1856)
Add to this record?
If you have photographs, documents or information that can contribute to this record, you can upload here
ContributeRectangular ('portrait') brass plaque with highly decorated borders featuring two haloed angels in medieval dress holding a scroll that bears the inscription in black and red gothic lettering. A foliate cross is between the angels' heads, and matching foliate scrollwork to the border at the bottom sides and below the scroll. The plaque is mounted on a black stone backboard.
Location
Launde Abbey Chapel - Launde
Grid Reference: SK7964004414
Get Directions
Inscription Reads
IN TENDER REMEMBRANCE OF HENRY CHARLES
DAWSON, LIEUT IN THE INNISKILLING DRAGOONS
ELDEST SURVIVING SON OF HENRY AND LOUISA
FINCH DAWSON. HE DIED OF FEVER AT BALACLAVA
IN THE CRIMEA, OCTR 5TH 1854, AGED 19, WHILE ON
SERVICE WITH THE ARMY AND WAS BURIED AT THE
HEAD OF THE HARBOUR, WHERE HIS BROTHER OFFICERS
HAVE RAISED A MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY.
IN THIS THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH HIS MOTHER RECORDS HER SORROW, COMFORTED BY THE REMEMBRANCE OF
WHAT HIS SHORT LIFE HAD BEEN AND BY THE BELIEF
THAT IN HIS DEATH FAR FROM HOME AND KINDRED
UNDERNEATH HIM WERE THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
"THY WILL BE DONE."
ALSO IN MEMORY OF LOUISA WIFE OF ALFRED
PHILLIPPS RYDER, CAPTAIN r.n. AND ELDEST
DAUGHTER OF HENRY AND LOUISA FINCH DAWSON.
SHE DIED AT SHEMA IN THE ISLAND OF MALTA
OCTR 10TH 1855, AGED 22, AND WAS BURIED
IN FLORIAN CEMETERY. LEAVING TO A HUSBAND
AND AN INFANT SON AN EXAMPLE OF THE TENDER-/EST AND PUREST LOVE, THE DEEPEST DEVOTION,
AND THE MOST SELF-DENYING CHARITY.
"BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHO DIE IN THE LORD
FOR THEY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS, AND THEIR
WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM."
"THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES
AND IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED."