Lt Col Henry Rooke
The name Henry Rooke is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Holy Cross church burial ground, Omodos, Limassol District, Cyprus.
There are 1 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Henry Rooke was buried in 1811. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Henry Rooke calculated age is 62.
Henry Rooke birth is given as 1749.
Henry Rooke is listed on the GPR grave numbered 381542.
Henry Rooke is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Henry Rooke has the record number 815068 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 03 March 2014
There are 3 images available for the monument listing Henry Rooke (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Henry Rooke record:
Under this marble are deposite the remains of Henry Rooke Esq. formerly Major in the Hundredth Regiment of Foot with brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of His Britannic Majesty King George the Third. After quitting the he travelled thro'varous parts of Europa, and being in Italy/ in the year 1799, joined the Russian Army before Ancona as a volunteer officer and for his services and assistance in reducing that fortress his late Imperial Majesty of all the Russias Paul conferred upon him the Order of S. Anne of Holstein 2nd class. He died in this Convent the 7th day of July in the year of our Lord and Saviour 1811 and was interred by the Holy Fathers underneath this stone with their consent and that of/ the most Reverend the Bishop of the Greek Church in the island of Cyprus. His only surviving brother B. Rooke as a last tribute of fraternal regard and affection/ hath caused this memorial to be conveyed and/ placed over his grave.