Memorial Details
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Memorial
Roll of Honour 1914-18 Amateur Rowing Club
Reference
E58.02
Place
EBCHESTER
Original Location
Ebchester Amateur Rowing Clubhouse
Present Location
Unknown - Missing
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Unveiled July 1919 by Mr. J.M. Nicholson of Derwent Hill.
Memorial Description
Roll of Honour “handsomely framed”. “The design symbolises the banks of the Derwent,and illustrates the boathouse, an aeroplane, guns, tanks and other implements of war”. It bore the motto “Per aspera ad astre” (“Through hardship to the stars”).
Materials used
?Paper behind glass.
Inscription
(Dedicated members who died and who served).
Names
Who commissioned
Ebchester Amateur Rowing Club
Sculptor, Artist or Designer
Designed by Mr. W. Urwin, Colne, Lancashire, former manager of the drapery dept. of Consett Stores.
Notes
1. About 12 members had gained military honours; one person gained three and others had two.
2. Mr. Nicholson said “The whole of the names inscribed on this artistic tablet deserve to be read, revered and remembered as long as the Derwent flows.”
2. Mr. Nicholson said “The whole of the names inscribed on this artistic tablet deserve to be read, revered and remembered as long as the Derwent flows.”
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photo; Ebchester Rowing Club 1914 Eric Heatherington
Consett and Stanley Chronicle 01/08/1919 reports unveiling.
Blaydon Courier 02/08/1919 reports unveiling.
Consett and Stanley Chronicle 01/08/1919 reports unveiling.
Blaydon Courier 02/08/1919 reports unveiling.
External web link
Research acknowledgements
Dorothy Hall
Research In Progress
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Roll of Honour 1914-18 Amateur Rowing Club (E58.02)
EBCHESTER Amateur Rowing Club
The layout of this memorial is not known.
The following has been extracted from a newspaper
report and has not been compared with the original
nor with a good photograph.
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The names of those who served are not listed in the
newspaper report.
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The five men who died were:
H. Fenwick
W.J. Vater
J.H. Tweddle
J. Burton
T. Armstrong.
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