Gostling gravestone
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Gostling gravestone
Image: © Tiger Taken: 20 Jun 2020
Outside the north-east corner of St Mary & St Lawrence Church; an unusual design of memorial for its date, with its conglomerate of rough stones clustered around the inscription at the base of the cross. There is also a memorial tablet to Colonel Fanshawe in St Albans Abbey. Did the early death of the son perhaps precipitate that of his grieving father? "To the beloved memory of CHARLES GOSTLING, Major General Royal Artillery, died at Waltham House, March 27t 1874, aged 77. "Also FANSHAWE WILLIAM GOSTLING, late Lt. Colonel 49th Regt, second son of the above, died January 18th 1874, aged 42."
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