Charmouth: Church of St Andrew (Dorset)

Memorial tablet for Captain Arthur John Shirley Hoare Hales, M.C. and 2nd Lieutenant Charles Edward Hoare Hales

 

Information from the CWGC database:

 

HALES, ARTHUR HOARE

 

Rank: Captain

Date of Death: 06/07/1916

Regiment/Service: Wiltshire Regiment, 1st Bn

Awards: M C

Panel Reference: Pier and Face 13 A.

Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France

Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/788370/HALES,%20ARTHU...

 

HALES, CHARLES EDWARD HOARE

 

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Date of Death: 22/11/1917

Age: 31

Regiment/Service: Wiltshire Regiment, 1st Bn

Grave Reference: A. 4.

Cemetery: BATHWICK (ST. MARY THE VIRGIN) CHURCHYARD, Somerset

Additional Information: Son of the late Maj. Gen. Arthur Hales (Royal Inniskilling Fus., Commandant Straits Settlements).

Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/394061/HALES,%20CHARL...

 

Inscription:

 

IN LOVED MEMORY OF

ARTHUR JOHN SHIRLEY HOARE HALES M.C.

CAPTAIN IN THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT,

WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN THE BATTLE

OF THE SOMME, 5TH JULY 1916.

AND OF

CHARLES EDWARD HOARE HALES,

2ND LIEUTENANT WILTSHIRE REGIMENT,

WHO DIED OF ILLNESS CONTRACTED ON

ACTIVE SERVICE, 22ND NOVR. 1917.

THE DEAR SONS OF THE LATE

MAJOR GENERAL ARTHUR HALES

ROYAL INNISKILLING FUSILIERS,

AND ONLY GRANDSONS OF THE LATE REVD.

JOHN DIXON HALES,

CANON OF ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL

FORMERLY RECTOR OF CHARMOUTH,

IN WHOSE INCUMBENCY THIS

CHURCH WAS REBUILT 1836.

THEY WERE LOVELY & PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES

& IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT LONG DIVIDED.

MAY THEY,

THE LAST OF THEIR VALIANT RACE,

REST IN PEACE.

O RISEN LORD, O SHEPHERD OF OUR DEAD,

WHOSE CROSS HAS BROUGHT THEM

AND WHOSE STAFF HAS LED,

IN GLORIOUS HOPE THEIR PROUD & SORROWIING LAND

COMMITS HER CHILDREN TO THY GRACIOUS HAND.

Done