Photo: Janet Brown
In memory of
Robert Hepple
Engineer
Who died Feb. 3rd 1884
Aged 53 years.
Robert, youngest son
Of the above died at Durban
South Africa March 24th 1900
Aged 24 years
God his watch is keepingTho’ none else be near.
Henry Cook
second son of the above
drowned while on active service
off Cape Natal, South Africa
July 5th 1917 aged 46 years.
Interred in Durban Military Cemetery
Margaret, wife of the above
Died November 25th 1917
Aged 75 years.
Simon Glancey has sent details of the headstone in Durban Military Cemetery, South Africa which reads:
Ever loving memory of
Henry Cook Hepple
Who was drowned
While serving in one of
H.M. Minesweepers
5th July 1917
“God his watch is keeping
Though none else be near”
The quotation is from a hymn, the first verse of which is “O let him whose sorrow no relief can find, / Trust in God, and borrow ease for heart and mind. / Where the mourner weeping sheds the secret tear, / God His watch is keeping, though none else is near.”
There does not appear to be a CWGC entry for Henry Cook Hepple.
