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Memorial Air raids 1939-45 Cemetery

Reference

S117.26

Place

SEAHAM & SEAHAM HARBOUR

Original Location

Cemetery. Near the entrance.

Which war

1939-45

Memorial Description

Board with curved top and bottom on stand. At centre top is the crest of Seaham Town Council. Names are listed in two columns by date. All lettering is in Roman capitals, the names in gold, the rest in white.

Materials used

Metal

Inscription

This plaque commemorates those residents of Seaham who lost / Their lives in the Air Raid attacks during the 2nd World War / 1939-1945
Let them forever be remembered

Names

56 full names.
See transcript.

Who commissioned

Seaham Town Council

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: Dorothy Hall

External web link

Durham at War

Seaham and the Great War

Research acknowledgements

Dorothy Hall

Research In Progress

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Memorial Air raids 1939-45 Cemetery (S117.26)

SEAHAM  Cemetery

   This plaque commemorates those residents of Seaham who lost

   their lives in the Air Raid attacks during the 2nd World War

   1939-1945

   August 1940                May 1943

   Edward Swan                Michael Richard Hughes

   Edna May E. Tempest        Doreen Hughes

   Mary Johnson               George Kelly

   Thomas Rochester           Margaret Kennedy

   Helena Rochester           Joseph Nicholson

   Aileen Rochester           Irene Appleton

   Joyce Rochester            John Bell

   Sarah Shaw                 June Corkhill

   William Thompson           Marion Corkhill

   Barbara Ferry              Alan Corkhill

   Doreen Ferry               Barbara Dixon Corkhill

   Alma Gale                  Gerald Corkhill

   Andrew Smith Errington     Wrightson Kirk Cuthbert

                              John Thomas Davison

   October 1940               Joyce Dobson

   Margaret Loraine           Georgina Dobson

   Jane Robson                John Dobson

                              Joan Henderson

   February 1941              William Henderson

   Margaret Wilkinson         Phyllis Miller

   Norman Wilkinson           Jennie Walker

   Patricia Wilkinson         Elizabeth Walker

   Kenneth Green              George William Weir

                              Lily Wild

   September 1942             Derek Davison

   Matthew Davison            Thomas Henry Grainger

   Elizabeth Graham           John Kelly

   December 1942              Richard Nixon

   Matthew Oliver Armstrong   Vincent Oglesby

   May 1943                   Violet Daisy Shaw

   George Kennedy             George Harrison Hall

   Charles Young              Mary Kelly

   Hilda Gaut                 Joseph Bland

   Let them forever be remembered

   This notice has been provided by Seaham Town Council on behalf of the community

NamesS117.26

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