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BROMPTON CEMETERY

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Photographs taken 28 May 2005 by Jennifer Carnell.

'The Vault of General W.M. Cafe V.C.

Isabella Mary Cafe
The second day of January 1890.
In loving memory.

General William Martin Cafe
Late Indian Army
The sixth day of August 1906.'

Cafe was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Indian Mutiny in 1857.
Isabella was 56 years old when she died in Kensington in 1890.

I couldn't see the names on this one.

Many of the graves in this part of the cemetery date from the first world war, and a number are of early
members of the Royal Air Force.

One of the most striking headstones is that for a pilot who was
awarded the Victoria Cross, Reginald Warneford, of the Naval Air Service.

Courage Initiative Intrepidity
Flight Sub Lieut
Reginald Alexander Warneford

He was born on the 15th October 1891

Warneford was only 23 years old when he was killed in a flying accident in June 1915.
Only a few days earlier he had been awarded the V.C. for his single-handed
attack on a zeppelin. The memorial was built from funds raised by
readers of the Daily Express newspaper.

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