Lt Col Richard Evert Van Der Horst • Upper Clatford

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Evert Van Der Horst OBE

Royal Marines. Commanding Officer of the SBS. 

He died in a diving accident while on active service in Norway on 14th March, 2005, aged just 38.

You can read more about his service on the Commando Veterans Archive

 

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GRID REF : SU 35720 43551

Font • Upper Clatford

 

Stone font in the shape of a chalice. 

Inscribed 'Richard Greene of WInterborne Stoke gave this in 1629'

Within the Grade II* listed 12th century church of All Saint's.

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Church Organ • Upper Clatford

 

Victorian organ within the 12th Century All Saint's parish church. Building is Grade II* listed.

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GRID REF: SU 35720 43551