Memorial Details
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Memorial
Street Memorial 1914-18 Livingstone Street
Reference
S86.124
Place
SOUTH SHIELDS
Map ref
NZ 366676
Original Location
Livingstone Street, Lawe Top (demolished).
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Unveiled August 1917.
Memorial Description
Roll of Honour. It was decorated “by deft hands” with pictures of the flags of the British Empire and Allied flags.
Inscription
For King and Country / Livingstone Street – Our Roll of Honour.
Please remember in prayer the following who are on active service.
Names
Who commissioned
Mrs. Claud Hamilton.
Notes
1. Livingstone Street lay on the left (west) side of Baring Street, the steep street that leads up to the Lawe Top and Arbeia Roman Fort from Ocean Road. It was the fourth street from the 'summit' of the Lawe Top.
2 There was a vase at each side for fresh flowers were replenished at intervals.
3 Mrs. Claud Hamilton, whose idea it was, had lost her only son in the war.
2 There was a vase at each side for fresh flowers were replenished at intervals.
3 Mrs. Claud Hamilton, whose idea it was, had lost her only son in the war.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Shields Gazette 08/08/1917 reports unveiling.
External web link
Research acknowledgements
James Hoy Archives: James Pasby
Research In Progress
The names on this memorial are being researched by Peter Hoy.
Contact: peterhoy@hotmail.co.uk
Street Memorial 1914-18 Livingstone Street (S86.124)
The layout of this memorial is not known.
The following has been extracted from a newspaper
article and has not been compared with a photo
nor with the original.
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For King and Country
Livingstone Street – Our Roll of Honour.
Please remember in prayer the following who are on active service.
*Adamson, Robert Adamson, George M.
Adamson Henry. Allan, James.
Atkinson, Isaac ?Earnest, Robert
Barrow, James ?Branxton, William
?Branxton, James ?Branxton, Thomas
?Branxton, John Bell, William
?Boyack, Anthony C. Curry, John.
*Cave, John Henry Capstick, Frederick
?Cahill, Peter Chapman, James W.
Cummings, Edward Fail, John
Gray, Albert *Grant, Henry
Grant, Lewis Gudgeon, John
Gudgeon, Robert Gudgeon, William
*Hamilton, Chas. Fred. Hambling, William
Harkus, Anthony Harkus, Robert
Hawkyard, James K. Hogarth, John H.
Hunter, John ?Heather, Richard
Hunter, Thomas W. *Jackson, James
Lane, Thomas Lane, James
Laing, Robert Stewart Langley, James
?Lampen, Thomas W. Maddison, Charles
Maddison, Thomas Marsden, John B.
Main, Robert *Morgan, Thomas
*Morgan, James *Moffatt, Henry
Moffitt, ?Abington McDermott, Henry, sen.
McDermot, Henry, junr. Newby, William
*Newby, Joseph Newby, Septimus
Noble, William Pearson, Joseph
Rix, Archie Richie, Hamilton
?Rogers, William Rogers, Alfred
Robson, James Sadler, John M.
Scott, Thomas Scott, William
Stewart, Thomas W. Stephenson, Russell K.
Stephenson, John George Smith, Francis Alfred.
Swift, William Alex. Thomas, James
Thompson, James Thompson, William
Thompson, Frederick Todd, James
Tyler, John C. Wanless, Leonard
Wanless, Alfred Waugh, Scott
West, Thomas W. Whitfield, Richard
Young, George
Killed in action
Hamilton, Chas. Fred. Grant, Henry
Cape, John Henry Adamson, Robert
Morgan, Thomas Morgan, James
Moffatt, Henry Jackson, James
Newby, Joseph.
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The name of John M. Sadler should be John H. Sadler.
NamesS86.124
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