Sergeant Albert Ernest Stone and Bombardier Charles Edwin Stone VC MM


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Reference WMO/291039

Address:

Belper Cemetery

Matlock Road

Broadholm

Belper

DE56 2JE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: An addition to white marble kerbstones on a family grave. The kerbstones have a chamfer on the outer face and bear the inscriptions in upright capital lettering, originally inlaid but subsequently replaced by incised lettering infilled in black. The grave also bears a recumbent stone tablet and a square white marble vase with further inscriptions. It is east of the chapel, up the hill, near the junction of two paths.
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South kerb: IN LOVING MEMORY OF; North kerb: MARY ELLEN STONE. MAY 21. 1906.; East kerb: SGT. ALBERT ERNEST STONE KILLED IN ACTION APR. 4. 1917, AGED 20 YEARS.; West kerb: CHARLES EDWIN STONE. V.C.. M.M.. AT REST AUG. 29. 1952, AGED 63 YEARS.; Tablet: ON 21 MARCH 1918 AT CAPONNE FARM FRANCE,/ AFTER WORKING AT HIS GUN FOR 6 HOURS,/ UNDER HEAVY GAS AND SHELL FIRE, GUNNER/ STONE WAS SENT BACK TO THE REAR WITH AN/ ORDER HE DELIVERED IT AND THEN UNDER A/ VERY HEAVY BARRAGE RETURNED WITH A/ RIFLE TO ASSIST IN HOLDING UP THE ENEMY ON/ A SUNKEN ROAD, FIRST BY LYING IN THE OPEN/ UNDER VERY HEAVY MACHINE GUN-FIRE AND/ THEN ON THE RIGHT FLANK OF THE 2 REAR GUNS/ HE HELD THE ENEMY AT BAY. LATER HE WAS/ ONE OF THE PARTY WHICH CAPTURED A/ MACHINE-GUN AND 4 PRISONERS.; Vase: TO A/ DEAR/ MOTHER/ & BROTHERS

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