Memorial Details
Memorial
Plaque 1914-18 Memorial Garden
Reference
M9.03
Place
MILFIELD
Memorial Description
On the wall at the back of the memorial garden is a panel on which the silhouettes of two soldiers are shown. Above them is a plaque bearing the dedication. There is a poppy in the two lower corners.
Between the silhouettes is a plaque with small raised edge bearing the names of the fallen in raised Roman lower case lettering.
Between the silhouettes is a plaque with small raised edge bearing the names of the fallen in raised Roman lower case lettering.
Inscription
Above silhouettes:
1914-1918 / We will remember them. On plaque 1914-1918 / In memory of the fallen of Milfield. When you go home / tell them of us and say / for your tomorrow / w gave our today.
1914-1918 / We will remember them. On plaque 1914-1918 / In memory of the fallen of Milfield. When you go home / tell them of us and say / for your tomorrow / w gave our today.
Names
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: J. Brown
Source of quotation: "When you go home . ." Thought to be based on the Greek Simonides who wrote after the Battle of Thermopylae: "Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by / That faithful to their precepts here we lie".
Source of quotation: "When you go home . ." Thought to be based on the Greek Simonides who wrote after the Battle of Thermopylae: "Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by / That faithful to their precepts here we lie".
Research acknowledgements
George and Janet Brown
Research In Progress
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Plaque 1914-18 Memorial Garden (M9.03)
1914-1918
We will remember them.
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1914-1918
In memory of the Fallen of Milfield.
Pte. George Turnbull
of the Lothian Light Horse
Died 13th February 1915 aged 42 years
Interred Wooler Churchyard
Pte. James Lee
of the Royal Marine Artillery
Died 29th March 1915 aged 20 years
Interred in Kirknewton Churchyard
Rifleman Robert How Hunter
The King's Royal Rifle Corps
6/3/1889 – 17/9/1916 aged 27 years
Listed on the Thiepval Memorial pier and face 13a and 13b Flanders
2nd Lt. Norman Archbold Hunter RAMC
and Northumberland Fusiliers
24/5/1895 – 3/9/1917 aged 23 years
Interred Hargicourt British Cemetery Aisne France.
L/Cpl Thomas Nesbit Shell
of the Morpeth Fusiliers
Born Ancroft 1885 Died 1st November 1918 aged 23 years
Interred Kirknewton Church Yard
When you go home
tell them of us and say
for your tomorrow
we gave our today.
NamesM9.03
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