WhiteTriangleLeft       

C16. NELSON’S TOMB

 

VIEW #1 AMT

ANelsonsTombCrypt

VIEW #2 AMT

BNelsonTombCrypt

VIEW #3 AMT

CNelsonTomb2Crypt

VIEW #4 AMT

DNelsonTomb

VIEW #5 IM

EScreenShot20211217at61909pmIM

[Photo Credit: Iain McLachlan

VIEW #6 RH

WellingtonTombCrypt

A plaque on the side of the tomb gives the dates of the Duke: BORN . MAY I, MDCCLXIX (1769) ; DIED .SEPT XIV, MDCCCLII (1852). Notice too the flat memorial plaques around this space, and extending further.

VIEW #7 RM

HNelsonTomb3RH1

VIEW #8 AMT

JellicoeCMG

The floor monument in the foreground covers the grave of  Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1935). He fought in the Anglo Egyptian War, the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 during Word War I. He became First Sea Lord before being relieved of his post at the end of 1917. In the 1920's he became Governor General of New Zealand. [Photo Credit: Church Monuments Gazetteer]

 

WhiteTriangleLeft1