Charles Wilfred Hext - Parish Church of St Andrew's - Coniston, Cumbria, UK - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

The Parish Church of St Andrew is in the Diocese of Carlisle and located on Hawkshead Road in the centre of Coniston.

The Grade II Listed building was designed by J. Matson and was built in 1819. It is constructed of slate with ashlar dressings and slate roof. The building features a west tower with embattled parapet, clock and paired stone-louvred bell openings. (visit link)

"The present church replaced an earlier church of 1586 built by William Le Fleming. The chancel and the low bays were added in 1891. The Baptistry West window of St Andrew has stained glass by Charles Kempe.
Many of the features in the Church worthy of mention refer back to the patrons and benefactors of Coniston – the Le Fleming family, who built Coniston Hall in 1270, and who have remained there until recent times, and the Barratt family who established themselves in Coniston in the 1820’s to develop the copper mines." (visit link)

The brass plaque mounted on the wall on the left of the Sanctuary and the Cross on the altar were presented in memory of Charles Wilfred Hext, who was the husband of Emily Barratt of Holywath.

The plaque is inscribed as follows;
'In LOVING MEMORY
OF
CHARLES WILFRED HEXT
MAJOR INDIAN ARMY
FORMERLY OF
THE DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT
WHO DIED IN THE
RAS~EL~TIN~ MILITARY
HOSPITAL, ALEXANDRIA
ON JULY 21ST 1919
AGED 38.

Major Charles Wilfred Hext was the son of Edward Staniforth Hext and Ellen Constance Hext, and was married to Emily Barratt, of Holywath in Coniston.
During the first World War he was in the Supply & Transport Corps.
He died aged 38 on 21 July 1919, at the Raz-El-Tin Military Hospital, Alexandria in Egypt. He is buried at the Alexandria (Hadra) Military Cemetery.
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