Memorial Details
Memorial
Stone 1914-18 1939-45 N.Ireland Pant Memorial Garden
Reference
W108.03
Place
WEST AUCKLAND
Original Location
West Auckland Pant Memorial Garden, Village green.
Which war
a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45
c. Northern Ireland.
b. 1939-45
c. Northern Ireland.
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Garden officially opened May 2009
Memorial Description
Stone 2 metres wide x 1.2 m deep. It is raked, being 57 cm high at the back x 14 cm high at the front. The raked top bears the dedication. Below this are two metal plaques side by side bearing the names in Roman lower case letters.
In the garden are two stone seats, 36 cm high x 1.8 m wide x 60 cm deep.
In the garden are two stone seats, 36 cm high x 1.8 m wide x 60 cm deep.
Materials used
Stone memorial, setts.
Inscription
In Memory of those who gave their lives in the /first and second world wars and subsequent conflicts / that we may live in peace
Names
Who commissioned
Parish Council
Cost
£37,000
How money was raised
Durham County Council’s Urban Rural Renaissance Initiative.
Sculptor, Artist or Designer
Designed and implemented by Groundwork West Durham and Darlington.
Ownership and maintenance
Parish Council
Notes
1. The memorial is in the Pant Memorial Garden, set around the disused water fountain, known as a “pant”. The whole area was redeveloped and surfaced, and includes sandstone benches and shrubs. The whole project cost £37,000, funded by Durham County Council’s Urban Rural Renaissance Initiative. It was designed and implemented by Groundwork West Durham and Darlington.
2. A comparison with W108.01 shows that there are three changes in the spelling of names, twenty additional names are added, including several buried in the local cemetery, and one name has been omitted from the earlier list – that of Thomas Smith. This may have been duplicated on the earlier Memorial, where two Thomas Smiths are shown.
2. A comparison with W108.01 shows that there are three changes in the spelling of names, twenty additional names are added, including several buried in the local cemetery, and one name has been omitted from the earlier list – that of Thomas Smith. This may have been duplicated on the earlier Memorial, where two Thomas Smiths are shown.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: John and Mavis Dixon
Northern Echo 10/05/2009 reports opening with the story.
Durham County News September 2009 reports upgrading of garden.
West Auckland War Memorial: Opening of the War Memorial and Garden, Sunday 7 June 2009 contains brief histories of those people named on the memorial, reproduced here by permission of West Auckland Parish Council.
Teesdale Mercury 25/02/2009 reports proposals.
Northern Echo 10/05/2009 reports opening with the story.
Durham County News September 2009 reports upgrading of garden.
West Auckland War Memorial: Opening of the War Memorial and Garden, Sunday 7 June 2009 contains brief histories of those people named on the memorial, reproduced here by permission of West Auckland Parish Council.
Teesdale Mercury 25/02/2009 reports proposals.
External web link
Additional Research documents (click to download)
Research acknowledgements
John and Mavis Dixon; Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; Dorothy Hall
Research In Progress
Kevin Richardson is researching the names on this memorial
Contact:
knrichardson53@gmail.com
Stone 1914-18 1939-45 N.Ireland Pant Memorial Garden (W108.03)
WEST AUCKLAND Pant Memorial Garden.
In Memory of those who gave their lives in the
first and second world wars and subsequent conflicts
that we may live in peace.
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Left hand plaque:
WORLD WAR ONE
William Armstrong Thomas W. Dunn Edward Laskey Robert B. Shaw
Robert Bagley William Eales Edward Lockey William Siddle
William H. Bagley John Field Charles Lowson Christopher Simpson
John Barclay William Gardner Edward Mason Thomas Smith
John Bestford Thomas H. Gibson Edward Maughan George Spavin
Wilkinson Bestford T W Goldsborough Thomas P. Maughan William Tallon
John R. Bird Robert Hathaway Robert J. McNeally John Teasdale
W Blenkin William Heaviside George Meads William Teasdale
George Bolton John Hepple Jonas Million Robert Henry Thomas
John Bolton John Hodgson George W. Nelson Robert H. Thompson
John Bowron Joseph S. Howson Joseph Oates Thomas H. Vickers
William Brown William Hutchfield Robert Oates Thomas Watson
James Campbell James W Hutchinson John W. Patton James W. Wilkinson
Joseph F. Castling Edward H. Jackson William J Polkinghorn Frederick L. Wilson
Joseph Clark John Jackson George Rewcastle Robert Wilson
Norman A. Clay John Jackson Sidney Riley William Wilson
George W Davison Thomas J.T. Jobling Percy Sanderson William Wilson
Harry Dobbin Robert Lane William Scott
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Left hand plaque:
WORLD WAR TWO
Clarence Anderson Cradoc Douthwaite William Oates Thomas Simpson
Percy Anderson Reginald S Harrison Ernest A. Postgate John L. Smurthwaite
Matthew Baxter Henry C Howland Thomas Pybus Norman Stout
Edmund Byers John E. Huntington Jim M. Raine Edgar Stones
George Byers Dennis T. Kelly George Reed Eileen Stones
Edgar Carrick George E Lawrence James Richardson Harold Tallentire
Robert Clarke John Mitton James T. Robinson James K.Wade
Robert Crow John Mooney John Routledge Harry Wilkinson
Wilfred Curtis Joseph Morley Harry Siddle Morris Hall
Arthur Dickinson Thomas Robinson
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NORTHERN IRELAND
Bill Robson
NamesW108.03
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