Memorial to the Carlton Colville Sea Scouts and Lance-Corporal Stanley Wood

The grave is sited in the New Cemetery on St Peter’s Road, Carlton Colville. It comprises a square kerbed enclosure in granite with six low headstones commemorating by name and age each drowned Scout. In the centre of the enclosure is a tall Celtic cross, standing on a tapering plinth.

On the front face of the plinth the principal dedicatory inscription reads BE PREPARED/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND/ IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF/ THORNTON WROTTESLEY PENDARVES LORY,/ (SCOUT MASTER AND DISTRICT SECRETARY)/ AND FIVE MEMBERS OF THE 1ST CARLTON ST MARKS./ PATROL OF SEA SCOUTS (BADEN POWELLS.)/ CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE THROUGH A BOAT ACCIDENT/ ON JUNE 1ST 1914./ “TAKE YE HEED WATCH AND PRAY/ FOR YE KNOW NOT WHEN THE TIME IS.” ST MARK XVI V 33

Below this the additional inscription reads STANLEY WOOD/ PATROL LEADER/ SAVED TO SERVE/ DIED FOR ENGLAND/ AT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY 1916/ AGED 19.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 13 January 2017.