The sword on this memorial stone is a cavalry sabre, and is accompanied by a rifle, and a pistol. The headstone, which is in the churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity, remembers Robert Hayes, son of Daniel Hayes and Mary (née Cumberland) of Loughborough Parks, who was born in 1788, and died in 1807. In the early 19th century, imagery on memorial stones became rather more directly related to the earthly life of the person, rather than the use of generic images. These particular images suggest that Robert was an officer, or a high-ranking military member, and the year of his death might suggest he was taking part in the Napoleonic Wars, perhaps the Copenhagen Expedition. There is more information about this conflict on the National Army Museum webpages. However, I am not a military historian, so please don't take my word for it.
The following memorials in the old cemetery on Leicester Road, we will remember them, not in words but in silence and photographs. There is more information available, and this is accessed via the person's name.
166514, Driver, John William Smith, Royal Field Artillery, 21st September 1919, age 40.
45190 Serjeant Percy Onions, Machine Gun Corps. (Inf) 15th November 1918 age 26
74166 Private James Pearson Royal Defence Corps and Cheshire Regiment 10th November 1918 age 28
241289 Sergeant Thomas Marston Military Medal and Two Bars The Leicestershire Regiment 10 June 1922
There is more information about Thomas Marston on the Carillon website; on the BBC news pages, and on the Royal Leicester Regiment webpages.
The memorial to POW Leonhard Rademacher can be found amongst other POWs in the new part of the Leicester Road cemetery which was opened in 1947.
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