Nice church, although nothing of a military bent to be found within, and an interesting churchyard too, by the looks of it.
Still non-military, but somewhat curious, this fallen cross resembles, perhaps, the sort of memorial more likely to be seen in a Scottish churchyard, and the base beyond, on which the cross was once placed,…
…is also of an unusual construction. You can see here why the cross has been removed and laid flat. According to Duncan the Elder, who accompanied me on this jaunt, and who knows such things, these are fired earthenware, examples of Compton Pottery, a local company that operated between 1904 & 1956.
You don’t see that many Military Labour Corps headstones – the local carriers for the British forces in East Africa were organized into a Military Labour Corps, colloquially known as the ‘Carrier Corps’.
Confirmation of the exhumation of the American nurse soon after the war.
The grave of Major General Henry Frederick Winchelsea Ely, who died in 1907 aged 77, and also in memory of his only son, Lieutenant Edward S. Butler Ely, 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers (pictured), who fought in the Boer War, and who, according to the inscription, ‘was called to Jesus April 15th 1900 on his voyage home from Natal.’ He actually died of enteric fever.
Shottermill war memorial is inlaid into the exterior of the churchyard wall.
Very smart.
