Photo: Tony Harding

Unidentified newspaper cutting 29/10/1919 reports laying up 'this morning'.

The plaque in the Cathedral reads:

Royal Naval Division
1. Hood Bn. Hawke Bn.
2. Northumberland Fusiliers Service Battalions
3. 8th Battalion 11. 18th Bn. 1st Tyneside Pioneers
4. 9th do 12. 19th Bn. 2nd do
5. 10th do 13. 22nd Bn. 3rd Tyneside Scottish
6. 11th do 14. 24th Bn. 1st Tyneside Irish
7. 12-13th do 15. 51st Bn. Young Soldiers
8. 14th Bn. Pioneers 16. 52nd Bn. do
9. 16th Bn Newcastle 17. 53rd Bn. do
10. 17th Bn. N.E.R. Pioneers..18. 2nd Garrison Battalion

The colours hung above were laid up
in this church for safe keeping
at the end of the Great War 1914-1918