Memorial Details
Memorial
Plaque Players 1914-18 1939-45 Stadium of Light
Reference
S140.155
Place
SUNDERLAND
Map ref
NZ 394574
Original Location
Opposite the West Stand, next to the Fans' Statue.
Which war
a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45
b. 1939-45
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Unveiled at 12 noon, on the 13th December 2014, [100 years Centenary of the Christmas Truce], just before the Kick-off at the match with visitors West Ham.
Memorial Description
Steel Plaque, 15" high (375mm) x 15" wide (375mm) very plain, on a wall in the area occupied by a statue of supporters. Lettering is in sans serif lower case.
Materials used
Stainless Steel
Inscription
Dedicated to the Sunderland players who died in the World Wars / (Names) /
And to all those who selflessly gave their lives.
Names
Who commissioned
Sunderland Football Club
Ownership and maintenance
Sunderland Football Club
Notes
1. The Memorial also pays tribute to all those killed in the line of Duty.
2. The Memorial sits within a specially created seated area, alongside the existing Fans' Statue -a stunning bronze installation dedicated to Sunderland fans past, present and future. As well as paying tribute to those players lost in World Wars, the area will also be used by fans as a focal point to remember lost loved ones.
3. Dedicated by two military chaplains who joined the Club Chaplain Father Marc Lynden-Smith and members of the Armed Forces to dedicate the monument.
2. The Memorial sits within a specially created seated area, alongside the existing Fans' Statue -a stunning bronze installation dedicated to Sunderland fans past, present and future. As well as paying tribute to those players lost in World Wars, the area will also be used by fans as a focal point to remember lost loved ones.
3. Dedicated by two military chaplains who joined the Club Chaplain Father Marc Lynden-Smith and members of the Armed Forces to dedicate the monument.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: Dorothy Hall
Red and White Saturday 13/12/2014. Match programme.
Source of quotation:
"They shall grow not old": Laurence Binyon 4th Stanza of 'For the fallen' first published in the Times on the 21st September 1914.
Red and White Saturday 13/12/2014. Match programme.
Source of quotation:
"They shall grow not old": Laurence Binyon 4th Stanza of 'For the fallen' first published in the Times on the 21st September 1914.
External web link
Research acknowledgements
Dorothy Hall; James Pasby
Research In Progress
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Plaque Players 1914-18 1939-45 Stadium of Light (S140.155)
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Dedicated to the Sunderland players who died in the World Wars:
1914 – 1918
Alexander Barrie
James Chalmers
Jack Huggins
Sandy McAllister
Albert Milton
Leigh Richmond Roose
Thomas Rowlandson
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1939-1945
Percy Saunders
and to all those who selflessly gave their lives.
NamesS140.155
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Parish Notes
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