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Frederick Ecton Barnes, RAF veteran Dennis Roy Sleigh, Fleet Air Army veteran
The headstones or monuments over these four military graves read as follows:
‘Erected by his brother officers in memory of Ernest Robert Travers, Midshipman of
HMS Monarch, who died at Larnaca on the 2nd October 1879, aged 15 years’
‘In memory of Frank Broomfield A.B. HMS Pioneer, died June 3rd 1903,
aged 21 years – erected by his shipmates’
‘In loving memory of Frederick Ecton Barnes, Wing Commander RAF,
December 1917 – April 1987. Rest in Peace’
‘Dennis Roy Sleigh, died 13 July 2008, aged 82 years’
(there is a plaque of the Fleet Air Arm on the cross above his grave)
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