A number of family graves have memorial inscriptions to relatives of died in WW1. These soldiers and sailors were either buried overseas or elsewhere in the UK or there bodies never recovered. There may also be commemorated on in places like the Portsmouth Naval Memorial or local churches. The families of such people still wanted to commemorate them personally and close to home and so added inscriptions to the family graves. An example is Private Alfred Sharpe who was killed in action in 1918 and is buried at the Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France. Alfred Offer was killed on HMS Black Prince at the battle of Jutland in 1916. The map below shows the location of these memorials. Please see separate page for WW1 Commonwealth War Commission register burials.
Map showing the location of graves with inscriptions of remembrance to family members who died in WW1 but were buried elsewhere. The summary below included links to other pages on this website with detailed stories.
Some examples are shown below:
WW1 cross memorial to Fredrick & Gordon Hicks, who gave their lives in the Great War.
Grave of Sidney Piper who died in France in 1919 shortly after the end of the war. We do not know his story.
Below are images with links to people and their stories.
Robert Charles Wood (1888-1914)
Arthur Robert Andrews (1893-1917)
Alfred SHARP (1886-1918)
Ronald Victor Lucas (1890-1917)
Arthur Robert Andrews (1893-1917)
William James Browning (1886 -1917)
