2012
SE9364 : Memorial Tablet to Sir Mark Sykes Bt in Sledmere House Chapel
taken 12 years ago, near to Sledmere, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Memorial Tablet to Sir Mark Sykes Bt in Sledmere House Chapel
Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet died at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 of Spanish influenza. His body was interred in a lead-lined coffin and was thought to have been well preserved; it was exhumed in 2008 by a team led by Prof John Oxford in a bid to recover intact flu viral particles. Further reading at
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