Memorial Title

J E Knowles

Summary

Derbyshire War Memorials: a description of a WW2 war memorial to John Knowles added to a family gravestone in Sandiacre Cemetery.

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Locations

Last known location:
Sandiacre Cemetery
Church Dr
Sandiacre
Derbyshire

Nearest postcode:
NG10 5EE

NGR:
SK 47978 37342 ±5m
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Location details:
Near the middle of the cemetery.

Type

Overall type: Addition to gravestone.

Overall condition: At risk. The inscription is barely legible.

Description:

An addition to the lettering on a headstone on a family grave. The headstone is an oblong white marble tablet with hollowed and stepped shoulders and sprays of ivy leaves in relief at the top corners. The headstone surmounts an oblong base with bevelled top and is accompanied by a recumbent plain oblong white marble tablet, a vase and kerbs bearing the makers mark at the foot. The inlaid inscription on the headstone and tablet is in upright capital block lettering.

Glossary

Components:

Component	Material	Height	Width	Depth	Condition
Headstone	White marble	840	755	95	Fair
Base	White marble	230	880	200	Fair
Tablet	White marble	455	455	50	Fair
Vase	White marble	210	210	210	Fair
Kerbs	White marble	240	820	1900	Fair
Dimensions in millimetres ±5mm unless stated otherwise.

Inscription

Headstone:

Conflicts and people named:
Conflict	Second World War (1939-1945)	Totals
Action	—
Number died	1	1
Number served and returned	0	0
Total names	1	1

IN
PROUD AND LOVING
MEMORY OF
JOHN EDWARD
THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF
IRENE MAY KNOWLES
WHO GAVE HIS LIFE IN THE BATTLE
OF NORMANDY
JUNE 13TH 1944. AGED 27 YEARS
BURIED IN BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE
BRITISH CEMETERY
ALSO OF VALERIE ANN
THE WELL LOVED DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JANUARY 12TH 1943, AGED 2 YEARS
"AND WITH THE MORN THESE ANGEL FACES
SMILE, WHICH I HAVE LOVED LONG
SINCE AND LOST AWHILE".

Tablet:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
JAMES ARTHUR
MILLS
DIED 31ST JANUARY 1988
AGED 67 YEARS
RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL

Foot of kerbs:

[JACKSON,
BULWELL.]

[Lettering missing.]

Administration

Custodian: Presumed to be the Knowles family.

Local authorities:
From WW2: Sandiacre Parish Council; Shardlow Rural District Council; Derbyshire County Council.
From 1974: Sandiacre Parish Council; Erewash Borough Council; Derbyshire County Council.

History

Unknown date: The memorial was made by Jackson, monumental mason of Bulwell, Nottinghamshire.

March 1984: The cemetery lies within the Sandiacre Cloudside Conservation Area first designated on that date.

12th July, 2011: The memorial was surveyed by Roy Branson and Alan Willmot. It was in fair condition.

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