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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 11, 2017 7:14:43 GMT
In affectionate memory of Lance Corporal Robert J Houghton of the Black Watch who died in the Soudan on the 4th March 1885 Aged 21 from wounds received whilst bravely fighting with his Regiment at the battle of Kibbekan. this tablet was erected by his former Schoolfellows as a tribute of their esteem for one who while at Newport School was distinguished as an Athlete as well as a noble minded honorable boy and genial Companion To the dear memory of my husband Walter Rowland S.Roberts M.B. Captain of the Royal Army Medical Corps, killed in action at the Dardanelles on August 16th 1915, aged 33 years. He loved duty more than he feared death
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