FDA-A.799-2018
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.799-2018
Object type
Identification
Title
Robert Neale Menteth Bailey and William George Gresham Leveson Gower
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Rectangular plaque (portrait orientation), with lettering
Comments
Robert Neale Menteth Bailey, King's Scholar, Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, Clerk in the House of Commons, Lt. in the E.R. or Yorkshire Yeomanry, died in Cairo of wounds received in Palestine aged 36, 1917, also his life long friend William George Gresham Leveson Gower, King's Scholar, Capt. of the school 1901, scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, Clerk in the House of Lords, General staff Officer 1915-1917, killed in action at Awaingt, France aged 36, 1918
'A Memorial brass is being erected to-day on the
south side of the organ loft in Ante-Chapei to the memory
of Robert Neale Menteth Bailey, K.S. of Eton, and of
his life-long friend, William George Gresham Leveson-
Gower, also King's Scholar of Eton, and Captain of the
School 1902. The former, who was in the East Riding
of Yorkshire Yeomanry, died of wounds received in
Palestine on the 1st December, 1917, and the latter, who
was in the Coldstream Guards, was- killed in action at
Awoingt, near Cambrai, on the 9th October, 1918.'
'A Memorial brass is being erected to-day on the
south side of the organ loft in Ante-Chapei to the memory
of Robert Neale Menteth Bailey, K.S. of Eton, and of
his life-long friend, William George Gresham Leveson-
Gower, also King's Scholar of Eton, and Captain of the
School 1902. The former, who was in the East Riding
of Yorkshire Yeomanry, died of wounds received in
Palestine on the 1st December, 1917, and the latter, who
was in the Coldstream Guards, was- killed in action at
Awoingt, near Cambrai, on the 9th October, 1918.'
Description
Content (description)
Inscription
Production
Date
1920
History and association
References
• Lack, W., Stuchfield, H. Martin and Whittemore, P., The Monumental Brasses of Buckinghamshire, London: Monumental Brass Society, 1994 (p. 93, no. CCLXXXI)
