James Douglas Herbert Farmer memorial plaque - All Saints - Mundesley, Norfolk
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Memorial plaque for James Douglas Herbert Farmer - 2nd Lt. 9th Battery, 41st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery - Killed in action near Ypres.
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Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/26/2016
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Marble plaque in the form of a shield with crossed swords, helmet and ivy at the top, and the regiment insignia at the bottom.
The plaque reads:
To the Glory of God
And in Loving Memory Of
James Douglas Herbert Farmer,
2nd Lieut. 9th Battery.41st Brigade
Royal Field Artillery
Second son of
James Herbert and Edith Gertrude farmer
"Fairfield", Mundesley,
Killed in Action near Ypres, Belgium,
On 4th November 1914,
Aged 21.
The 41st brigade:
"This brigade was originally comprised of numbers 9, 16 and 17 Batteries RFA and the Brigade Ammunition Column. It was placed under command of the 2nd Division and went to France with it in August 1914.
47 (Howitzer) Battery joined from 44 (Howitzer) Brigade of the same division, on 26 May 1916."
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Aged 21.