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In Lancaster Cemetery.

IN EVER LOVING
MEMORY
OF
EDWARD JACKSON GAULTER,
LEADING SEAMAN,
ONE OF THE HEROIC DEFENDERS OF
LADYSMITH, SOUTH AFRICA,
WITH THE
NAVAL BRIGADE,
WHO DIED
NOVEMBER 27TH, 1900,
AGED 28 YEARS






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Two great photos Berenice. EJ Gaulter had served on HMS Powerful before being drafted ashore for the siege.

From The Leeds Mercury, 1 Dec 1900.

Berenice

A very impressive headstone. Thank you for showing it. I wonder how often it is that you visit a church or cemetery and find NO link to the Boer War?

Regards
Brett

Good question. Off the top of my head I'd guess that something like 1 in 10 of the churches I've looked in have a Boer war-related plaque. Headstones with mentions of the Boer War are scarcer - Lancaster Cemetery, which is my nearest big cemetery, has three such headstones whereas I don't recall coming across any in the various Stoke-on-Trent cemeteries.

I called in at Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Sands, this morning....



and then in Lancaster Library. This clipping is from the Lancaster Observer & Morecambe Chronicle, 7.12.1900.