Parish Notes
SUNDERLAND

Colours of 20th Wearside D.L.I. St.Michael & All Angels

Photo: Tony Harding

The plaque which accompanies the Colours has the regimental badge at centre top and reads:

This colour of the 20th (Wearside Battalion)
of the Durham Light Infantry
was entrusted to the Rector & Wardens of
of Bishopwearmouth Parish Church
on Friday February 27th 1920
for safe keeping for all time
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Removed from the church during reconstruction
and replaced on Sunday January 12th 1936

Source: Monumental Inscriptions & Dedications within St. Michael & All Angels, Bishopwearmouth and the Gravestones in the Churchyard.