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Ryde Cemetery

Mr Harry Bessant

Title: Mr
Forenames: Harry
Surnames: Bessant
Date of Death: 14/01/1955
Age at Death Years: 90
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 047 C2
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section L Plot 4321
Grave Description: Surrounding kerbstones, central stone scroll tablet. Lead lettering, stone covered.
(Stone Flower Urn engraved "JIM" possibly not for this grave)

Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Overgrown with grass

Old Website Grave ID: 13995

Inscription:

Central scroll tablet
IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF OUR DEAR MOTHER
ROSE BESSANT
WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY
JUNE 12TH 1938
AGED 69 YEARS
"UNTIL THE DAY BREAK"

South kerb inner face
PERCY REGINALD BESSANT WHO PASSED AWAY NOVEMBER 29TH 1935 AGED 43 YEARS.

East kerb
ALSO OF HARRY BESSANT DIED JAN 14TH 1955 AGED 90 YEARS.

West kerb
IN LOVING MEMORY OF

West kerb inner facing
HARRY BESSANT, KILLED IN ACTION OCTOBER 15TH 1917 AGED 30 YEARS
FREDERICK BESSANT KILLED IN ACTION IN GALLIPOLI APRIL 26TH 1915 AGED 25 YEARS.

Photographs:

David Earle
H Bessant Nov 2013
Photographer: David Earle

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