Harry Mist

Forename(s): Harry

Surname: Mist

   RN, Boy 1st Class

Date of birth: 7 Apr 1873

Date of death: 9 Sep 1890

Date of burial: 12 Sep 1890

Age at death: 17 years

Address: Alfred St EC

Died at: Portsmouth Harbour

Section: D - Cemetery map

Plot No: 772  Section map of plots

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Burial Register entry: Kingston   457


Died in accident

Kingston Cemetery

Harry Mist

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Inscription

Sacred to the memory of
HARRY MIST
BOY 1st CLASS, HMS ‘ST VINCENT’
WHO MET HIS DEATH BY FALLING
FROM ALOFT
SEPTEMBER 9th 1890,
AGED 17 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS
‘In the midst of life we are in death’
ERECTED
BY THE CAPTAIN, OFFICERS, SHIP’s Co.
AND BOYS OF THE SHIP, AS A TOKEN OF THE
ESTEEM IN WHICH HE WAS HELD AS AN
UPRIGHT LAD.

Transcription by: Ken W