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The McLaughlin headstone in frontal view.
White marble headstone of a simple gothic style with an arched top and pilasters on each side, trefoil shaped medallion in the centre with a relief carved passion flower, carved inscription uses lead-inlaid lettering in a combination of gothic, roman and italic scripts. Signed by the mason: Acton, Lithgow.
Inscription reads:
In Memory of
My Dear Husband
THOMAS McLAUGHLIN
Who Departed This Life
29 May 1912
Aged 67 Years
Also My Daughter
ALICE
Who Departed This Life
24 October 1910
Aged 34 Years.
Rest. Perfect Rest.
Links: www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2488226/megalong-cemetery/photo
Redcar Cemetery
Laurence William WRIGHT
Engineer Lieutenant, Royal Navy
HMS ‘Bulwark’.
Born 4 October 1880,
Died 26 November 1914, aged 34 years.
Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial,
Memorial 1.
Engineer Lieutenant Wright perished, along with 50 other officers and 745 men, when the ship in which they were serving, the 15,000-ton battleship HMS ‘Bulwark’, which was taking on coal in the River Medway off Sheerness, blew up and sank. A mammoth explosion on board ripped the ship apart, and debris was scattered up to four miles away.
It was subsequently assumed at a naval court of inquiry that a chain reaction, in which the mass of shells in the eleven storage magazines of the ship had exploded almost simultaneously, destroyed the ship completely and claimed the lives of all but a handful of her complement.
Laurence William Wright was the younger son of Laurence and Mary Wright, who were both Scots. His father was a draper, and the family first settled in Middlesbrough before moving to ‘Orwell’, Coatham. Laurence had a brother, John, and three sisters, Jessie, Jeanie and Mary, although Jeanie and John both died in 1894. He started at Coatham Grammar School as a fee-paying day boy in September 1892, aged 11, staying until July 1895, when he was nearly 15. 1901 Census records suggest that he may have been an apprentice marine engineer, boarding in Stockton-on-Tees. Naval records state he was also educated at La Chatelaine College, Geneva, and Durham College of Science. Certainly by 1911 he was an electrical engineer, living at home in Coatham, with his widowed mother and two remaining sisters. At the outbreak of the War he gave up his career and volunteered for naval service, joining HMS ‘Bulwark’ on 26 September 1914 as an Engineer Lieutenant, only two months before he was killed. His sister Mary was the principal beneficiary of his substantial estate of £21,080, as he was unmarried at the time of his death. He is also remembered on a family grave in Redcar Cemetery.
www.sirwilliamturner.org.uk/remembrance/ww1/world-war-one...
"Losses of life in the First World War are more often than not attributed to engagements in battle or enemy action of some sort. However, this is not always the case. One of the most significant events during the early part of the war that caused a major loss of life to military personnel was an accident.
HMS Bulwark was part of the 5th Battle Squadron and at the outbreak of the war was based at Sheerness in order to protect the South East of England from the threat of a German invasion.
On Thursday 26 November 1914, she was moored in the Medway Estuary approximately between East Hoo Creek and Stoke Creek when, at 7.50am a massive explosion ripped through the vessel. The Times reported
"The band was playing and some of the men were drilling on deck when the explosion occurred. A great sheet of flame and quantities of debris shot upwards, and the huge bulk of the vessel lifted and sank, shattered, torn, and twisted, with officers and men aboard..."
Boats of all kinds were launched from the nearby ships and shore to pick up survivors and the dead. Work was hampered by the amount of debris which included hammocks, furniture, boxes and hundreds of mutilated bodies. Fragments of personal items showered down in the streets of Sheerness.
Initially 14 men survived the disaster, but some died later from their injuries. One of the survivors, an able seaman, had a miraculous escape. He said he was on the deck of the Bulwark when the explosion occurred. He was blown into the air, fell clear of the debris and managed to swim to wreckage and keep himself afloat until he was rescued. His injuries were slight.
The CWGC database names 788 men from HMS Bulwark as having lost their lives in this explosion. There was only a handful of survivors.
Of the fourteen men to survive, most were seriously injured. Miraculously there were a very few who came through this without injury, having been blown out of an open hatch. One of these survivors, Able Seaman Marshall described feeling a “colossal draught” and, as he flew through the air, seeing the Bulwark’s masts shaking. Other witnesses were on the battleship HMS Implacable, which was moored next to Bulwark, they described
"…a huge pillar of black cloud belched upwards... was followed by a thunderous roar. Then came a series of lesser detonations, and finally one vast explosion that shook the Implacable from mastheads to keel".
Among those killed were six 15 year old sailors: Midshipman William Ellice (who had earned ‘blues’ at Osborne in Rugby, Cricket and Hockey); Signal Boy Benjamin Spencer; Midshipman Evelyn Williamson, Bugler Philip Bullen, Royal Marines; Boy 1st Class William Kellow and Midshipman Charles Wilson.
The subsequent naval court of enquiry found that shells and other ammunition had been stored in the corridors between the magazines, and that a fault with one of the shells or overheating cordite near a boiler room bulkhead could have started a chain reaction which destroyed the ship.
Most of the fatalities from this incident are named on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, but 61, whose bodies were located, and could be identified, are buried in Gilliingham (Woodlands) Cemetery." Western Front Association
“The Bulwark was lying near Sheerness, and was taking in ammunition from some barges at the time. Some say there were three powder barges there, if so, all have gone with the Bulwark. They would have had only two or three hands on each.
“Immediately after the explosion the other warships put out their torpedo nets, but, in my own mind, I feel sure there was no enemy submarine about and that the disaster was the result of an accident.”
'Nottingham Evening News,' 27th November 1914.
#352 - Letchworth Village Cemetery – The grave markers of this cemetery are numbered, the names intentionally unlisted. This “village” was built in 1911 with the good intentions of creating a humane treatment center for the “feeble-minded and epileptic” (referred to today as mentally handicapped). It rests on 4 square miles of beautiful NY State farmland and consisted of over 100 buildings. Well intentioned at the start, it quickly suffered from underfunding and reports eventually surfaced of mistreatment of patients including neglect, abuse, severe overcrowding, and medical experimentation. Sadly, at one point over half the patients were children as young as 5 years old. The first polio vaccine was administered to a child here in 1950. Hence, the reason the names were left off the grave markers of the poor souls who died here; to protect those families names from embarrassment. A new large wall of name-plaques has been added to the grounds now listing all of the names of those interred here. The institution was closed in 1996 and is now abandoned and the structures are quickly decaying. I’ve lived 30 minutes from this place for many years and never knew it existed.
" Whose life was devoted to giving generously of himself to help others."
Juniper Hill Cemetery, Bristol RI
Plot 10: Alfred Finlay (66) 1944 – Rtd Baker
Nellie Ellen Finlay (64) 1948
In Loving Memory of
ALFRED FINLAY
died 5th May 1942
Also his loved wife
NELLIE ELLEN FINLAY
died 16th Aug. 1948
FINLAY. —On May 5, at a private Hospital, Alfred, dearly-beloved husband of Nelly Finlay, 31 Brentwood Avenue, Mount Eden, and loving father of Alf, Jim, Dick (overseas), George, Allan and the late Frank (killed overseas); aged 66 years. Funeral will leave W. H. Tongue and Son's Chapel to-day (Saturday), at 11 a.m. for Waikumete Cemetery.
The best statues are in cemeteries, I think
Seen in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY, where Mark Twain is buried.
The burial site of Donald McDonald and Mary Gillis at the cemetery in Springton, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Sinking Springs Cemetery in Abingdon, VA. I've passed this cemetary dozens and dozens of times and never stopped until now, almost 17 years since I first passed it. I do not really photograph grave yards, I came to the sole purpose of photographing a Kappa Sigma grave stone.
After the blizzard last week, I went out to the cemetery that is close to our house for a few shots. Very still and calm after the snow.
Tombs of Polish soldiers who fell in the city during the Polish–Soviet War and Polish–Lithuanian War.
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Brompton cemetery was one of the seven cemeteries created in the middle of the 19th century when the growing population of London made it evident there was much need for that. Brompton, originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery, was opened for use in 1840 - the cemetery is still used up to this day as a burial place, but much more rarely nowadays, now it is much more commonly used as a public park to jog in or walk the dog (though preferably only using the paths where signs say it's allowed to walk your dog).
The plot of land was bought from Lord Kensington and prior it had been market gardens in the area, an area of 160 000 m2. The cemetery was designed by Benjamin Baud, which includes a domed chapel at one end, modelled after St Peter's in Rome, which is reached through long colonnades, with catacombs underneath. The catacombs were built to offer a cheaper way of burial, but it was not a success at all - only about 500 of the thousands of burial-spots in them were sold.
The writer Beatrix Potter grew up not far from the cemetery and she spent quite a lot of time at this place. It would inspire her in her writings, the colonnade is the walled gardens of Mr. McGregor and several of the names she used can be found on tomb-stones.
The place has also been the setting of several films, including The Wisdom of Crocodiles (also known as Immortality - starring Jude Law), Crush and Johnny English.