WALTER FREDERICK BEDFORD. PRIVATE CH11420 ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY CHATHAM DIVISION ON HMS PEGASUS BORN 2 MAR 1881. ENLISTED 5 FEB 1900. DIED 16 JAN 1902 AGED 20 OF ENTERIC FEVER. HIS FATHER WAS INFORMED OF HIS DEATH 24.1.02 HIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY HIS COMRADES AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT. AT REST IN PLOT A GRAVE 8
WALTER FREDERICK BEDFORD. PRIVATE CH11420 ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY CHATHAM DIVISION ON HMS PEGASUS BORN 2 MAR 1881. ENLISTED 5 FEB 1900. DIED 16 JAN 1902 AGED 20 OF ENTERIC FEVER. HIS FATHER WAS INFORMED OF HIS DEATH 24.1.02 HIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY HIS COMRADES AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT. AT REST IN PLOT A GRAVE 8
Inscription
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF
WALTER F. BEDFORD
RMLI
H.M.S. PEGASUS
WHO DIED ON THE
16th JANUARY 1902
AGED 20 YEARS
THIS STONE IS ERECTED
BY HIS COMRADES
AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT
TREAD LIGHTLY ON THE STRANGER'S GRAVE
HE CAME FAR O'ER THE SEA
NO MOTHER WATCHED HIS DYING BED
NOR VOICE SAID LIVE FOR ME
SUDDEN AND SHORT HIS NOTICE WAS
MESSMATES AND SHIPMATES MOURN
AND LONG WILL THINK UPON HIS NAME
GONE NEVER TO RETURN
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Gravestone has significant damage
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