FDA-A.800-2018
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.800-2018
Object type
Identification
Title
Richard Selby Durnford, Edward Foss Prior and Walter George Fletcher, 1914-1918
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Content (description)
Inscription with 2 enamelled shields
Inscription
Incised lettering: ‘MCMXIV-MCMXVIII / RICHARD SELBY DURNFORD / EDWARD FOSS PRIOR / WALTER GEORGE FLETCHER / MAGISTRI.ADIUTORE.ETONENSES.ET.SCHOLAE.SUAE.ET / COLLEGIS.DESIDERATISSIMI.LOCO.NOTO.LABORIBUS. / DILECTIS.DECEDENTES.AD.MILITANDUM.PRO.PATRIA. / ULTRO.PROGRESSI.SUNT.ET.MUNERE.SUO.UT.HIC.ITA. / ILLIC.EGREGIE.FUNCTI.AD.NOS.NON.SNUT.REVERSI.DEUS. / ENIM.PARAVIT.ILLIS.CIVITATEM'
[Translates as: 'Eton masters and assistants, deeply missed by their school and colleagues, left their familiar posts and cherished labors to serve their country; having discharged their duty there as admirably as they did here, they did not return to us—for God has prepared a city for them.']
[Translates as: 'Eton masters and assistants, deeply missed by their school and colleagues, left their familiar posts and cherished labors to serve their country; having discharged their duty there as admirably as they did here, they did not return to us—for God has prepared a city for them.']
Production
Date
1918
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. CCLXXXII)
