Memorial Details
Memorial
Plaque 1914-18 Berwick Grammar School
Reference
B25.21
Place
BERWICK ON TWEED
Original Location
Berwick Grammar School
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Unveiled Thursday 23rd September 1920 by Mr. A.L. Miller, J.P.; dedicated by The Rev. R.C. Inglis.
Memorial Description
Plaque set in a wood frame approx. 4 feet 6 inches high x 4 feet 6 inches wide. Across the top is a spray of ?acanthus leaves, with a dog and a ?fly in the right hand corner. At each side is a grieving woman, raised in half relief, the left hand one is bare headed and carries a wreath. The right hand one has a veil on her head. The names are listed in two columns. All lettering is in raised elaborate capital letters throughout.
Materials used
Bronze in oak frame.
Inscription
To the Glory of God and in / Loving Memory of Former / Pupils of this School who / Gave their Lives in the Great / War 1914-1919.
Virtutis Quaesiverunt Gloriam Vident Dei
Virtutis Quaesiverunt Gloriam Vident Dei
Names
How money was raised
Presented by Sir Francis D. Blake, C.B., M.P. (former pupil & Governor of the School)
Notes
1. John Kincaid also has the altar and reredos in Tweedmouth St.Bartholomew dedicated to his memory. See T31.03
2. Robert Oakley V. Thorp is remembered in Ellingham St.Maurice. See E20.04
2. Robert Oakley V. Thorp is remembered in Ellingham St.Maurice. See E20.04
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: Tony Harding
Northumberland Record Office : Programme for Dedication service, Ref. CES.56/1/1;
Berwick Grammar and High Schools Minute Book 1916-1935
Berwick Advertiser 19/10/1917 reports last Prize Day address which includes the personal details of seven former pupils who made the supreme sacrifice since the last Prize Day.
de Rivigny Roll of Honour, 1914-18
Source of quotation:
Virtutis Quaesiverunt Gloriam Vident Dei (?“They looked for courage and saw the glory of God”)
Northumberland Record Office : Programme for Dedication service, Ref. CES.56/1/1;
Berwick Grammar and High Schools Minute Book 1916-1935
Berwick Advertiser 19/10/1917 reports last Prize Day address which includes the personal details of seven former pupils who made the supreme sacrifice since the last Prize Day.
de Rivigny Roll of Honour, 1914-18
Source of quotation:
Virtutis Quaesiverunt Gloriam Vident Dei (?“They looked for courage and saw the glory of God”)
Research acknowledgements
Tony Harding
Research In Progress
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Plaque 1914-18 Berwick Grammar School (B25.21)
BERWICK High School
To the glory of God and in
Loving memory of former
Pupils of this school who
Gave their lives in the Great
War 1914-1919
John Edgar Boal Andrew Berghaus McCreath
Joseph Henry Boston Alexander Lorimer Miller
George Pratt Boyd Thomas Murray Miller
George Henry Evans Robert Muir
Robert Forester Thomas Edward Nicholson
Edward Gray Gilbert James Piercy
William Grieve John Stewart Gilchrist Reid
John Hendry Michael Reilly
Peter Geddes Hendry Eric William Wright Sandison
Robert Fish Hills Frank Weddell Smail
Walter Hogarth Noel Alexander Smith
Robert How Hunter James Stawart
Norman Archibald Hunter John Straffen
John Kincaid William Thomson
Alexander Macnab Robert Oakley Thorp
John Marshall David Brown Walker
Virtutis quaesiverunt gloriam vident Dei
Charles Stuart
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The dedication programme reads as follows, with a
slight variation on two or three names.
“To commemorate the names of former pupils
who gave their lives in the service of our
Empire in the Great War 1914-1919”
Boal,John Edgar
Boston, John Henry
Boyd, George Pratt
Evans, George Henry
Forester, Robert
Gray, Edward
Grieve, William
Hendry, John
Hendry. Peter Geddes
Hills, Robert Fish
Hogarth, Walter
Hunter, Robert How
Hunter, Norman Archibald
Kincaid, John
MacNab, Alexander
Marshall, John Robert
McCreath. Andrew Berghaus
Miller, Alexander Lorimer
Miller, Thomas Murray
Muir, Robert
Nicholson, Thomas Edward
Piercy, Gilbert James
Reid, John Stewart Gilchrist
Reilly, Michael
Sandison, Eric William Wright
Smail, Frank Weddell
Smith Alexander Noel
Stawart, James
Straffen, John
Thomson, William
Thorp, Robert Oakley V.
Walker, David Brown
“Let not their glory fade.”
NamesB25.21
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