Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

St Andrew, Alfriston

Inscription:

In
Loving Memory
of
WILLIAM FOORD,
DIED 9. DEC. 1916
AGED 74
Also
MATILDA FOORD,
DIED 30 MARCH 1925.
AGED 80.
GOD LOVES YOU
Also of their sons
ALFRED FOORD,
KILLED IN ACTION AT MONS 1914
AGED 35
HERBERT FOORD,
DIED A PRISONER OF WAR
IN TURKEY 1916. AGED 35
NO LOVED ONE STOOD BESIDE THEM
THEY GAVE NO LAST FAREWELL
NOT A WORD OF COMFORT COULD THEY HAVE
FROM THOSE WHO LOVED THEM WELL.

Monument details:

Type: Stone grave marker (external).

Monument Condition: Unknown.

Inscription Condition: Unknown.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Foord.

First Name(s): Herbert.

Birth date: Not given.

Death date: ?? ??? 1916.

Age: 35.

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

Image:

Image of a monument

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