On the small island of Great Stirrup Cay, one of the Berry Islands in the Bahamas, is the grave of Allan Bertram, of the Royal Navy. This is the inscription on the stone:
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ALLAN BERTRAM, ESQ.
LATE COMMANDER OF HMS TWEED
HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE OF FEVER
JULY 29, 1834
AFTER SERVING FAITHFULLY HIS COUNTRY 33 YEARS
AGED 44 YEARS
O BERTRAM, THE MAN, THE FATHER,
ART THOU GONE AND GONE FOREVER
HAS THOU CROSSED THAT UNKNOWN RIVER
LIFE'S DREARY END
LIKE THEE WE SHALL NOT FIND ANOTHER,
HE DIED ABROAD
HE WAS BORNE TO THE EARTH BY THE CREW
THAT HE DIED WITH, HE HAD THE TEARS
OF HIS SHIPMATES, THE PRAYERS OF
HIS FRIENDS.
PLACED BY NORWEGIAN CARIBBEAN LINES -OCTOBER 1979
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ALLAN BERTRAM, ESQ.
LATE COMMANDER OF HMS TWEED
HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE OF FEVER
JULY 29, 1834
AFTER SERVING FAITHFULLY HIS COUNTRY 33 YEARS
AGED 44 YEARS
O BERTRAM, THE MAN, THE FATHER,
ART THOU GONE AND GONE FOREVER
HAS THOU CROSSED THAT UNKNOWN RIVER
LIFE'S DREARY END
LIKE THEE WE SHALL NOT FIND ANOTHER,
HE DIED ABROAD
HE WAS BORNE TO THE EARTH BY THE CREW
THAT HE DIED WITH, HE HAD THE TEARS
OF HIS SHIPMATES, THE PRAYERS OF
HIS FRIENDS.
PLACED BY NORWEGIAN CARIBBEAN LINES -OCTOBER 1979
On the small island of Great Stirrup Cay, one of the Berry Islands in the Bahamas, is the grave of Allan Bertram, of the Royal Navy. This is the inscription on the stone:
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ALLAN BERTRAM, ESQ.
LATE COMMANDER OF HMS TWEED
HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE OF FEVER
JULY 29, 1834
AFTER SERVING FAITHFULLY HIS COUNTRY 33 YEARS
AGED 44 YEARS
O BERTRAM, THE MAN, THE FATHER,
ART THOU GONE AND GONE FOREVER
HAS THOU CROSSED THAT UNKNOWN RIVER
LIFE'S DREARY END
LIKE THEE WE SHALL NOT FIND ANOTHER,
HE DIED ABROAD
HE WAS BORNE TO THE EARTH BY THE CREW
THAT HE DIED WITH, HE HAD THE TEARS
OF HIS SHIPMATES, THE PRAYERS OF
HIS FRIENDS.
PLACED BY NORWEGIAN CARIBBEAN LINES -OCTOBER 1979
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ALLAN BERTRAM, ESQ.
LATE COMMANDER OF HMS TWEED
HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE OF FEVER
JULY 29, 1834
AFTER SERVING FAITHFULLY HIS COUNTRY 33 YEARS
AGED 44 YEARS
O BERTRAM, THE MAN, THE FATHER,
ART THOU GONE AND GONE FOREVER
HAS THOU CROSSED THAT UNKNOWN RIVER
LIFE'S DREARY END
LIKE THEE WE SHALL NOT FIND ANOTHER,
HE DIED ABROAD
HE WAS BORNE TO THE EARTH BY THE CREW
THAT HE DIED WITH, HE HAD THE TEARS
OF HIS SHIPMATES, THE PRAYERS OF
HIS FRIENDS.
PLACED BY NORWEGIAN CARIBBEAN LINES -OCTOBER 1979
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