Friends of Hastings Cemetery
Maurice Sarsfield Walsh continued
Tributes printed after his death were many and can be viewed in Brett’s History of the Hastings Newspapers, pages 114-
The grave also bears the inscription
Also of Cicely, Daughter of the above and wife of Lieut. Jewett I.S.C
Who died 9th August 1902 Aged 24 years
Interred in Sewree Cemetery, Bombay
Thou God Knowest
The mason is shown as Bennett. The cross from the top of the memorial has fallen.
His daughter Cicely was due to marry shortly before Maurice’s death and wanted to postpone the marriage as her father was so ill but Maurice insisted it went ahead.
Cicely married Lieut. Ashley Ernest Jewett of the 43rd Ghurka Rifles on 1st July 1902 at St Mary Magdalen Church, St Leonards on Sea.
About a week after the marriage the couple left for India in order that the Lieutenant could take up his military duties. A letter dated 8th August received by the family in Hastings from Lieut. Jewett in Bombay informed them that Cicely was suffering from peritonitis and was sinking and that they should prepare for the worst. A cable was immediately dispatched by the distraught family but the reply advised them that Cicely had passed away peacefully. No date was given but it was understood that
she suffered greatly from the heat whilst passing through the Red Sea and died shortly after arriving in Bombay.
Maurice Walsh shares his final resting place with his wife Marion Eliza, who was buried 17th August 1917, aged 66 years and his son Alexander Sarsfield Walsh, a bank cashier who was buried in the grave on 16th March 1925 aged 42 years.
