Memorial

Book of Remembrance 1939-45 Korea St. Catherine

Crook

Memorial Name: Book of Remembrance 1939-45 Korea St. Catherine (C121.06)

NEWMP Ref No.: C121.06

Parish: Crook

Original Location:

St. Catherine’s Church, Church Street.

Which War:

a. 1939-45
b. Korea 1951-3

Materials Used:

Oak case. Paper, red leather book.

Cost:

Estimated at £63 10s.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Book supplied by J. Wippell of Exeter, and written by C.A. Howard.

Case made by Thompson’s of Kilburn. Completed on 03/10/1960

Inscription:

Herein
are inscribed the
names of those
of this parish and
congregation who
made the Supreme
Sacrifice in the
years of the Second
World War 1939 –
1945 and in Korea.

Memorial Description:

Book of Remembrance.

It is bound in red leather with a gold cross tooled on the front.

The flyleaf is headed by a painting of St. Catherine with the name of the Church forming a circle around her.

The dedication below is hand painted in red.

There is a page for each month on which the names of those who died are handwritten.

The month is in red and the names and the year are in black.

The book sits in a very plain glass-topped oak showcase below the plaque for 1914-18.

A Thompson of Kilburn mouse is at the bottom of the left front leg.

Names:

91 names and year of death.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The Faculty allowed for the introduction of a remembrance book and oak case.
Case to be about 4’ high, not to be inscribed, and made by Thompson’s of Kilburn.
The inscription on the book to be: “Herein are inscribed the names of those of this parish and congregation who made the Supreme Sacrifice in the years 1939 – 1945 and Korea 1951 – 1953”.
The book was to have 28 pages, approximately 15 inches by 9 inches, bound in red leather with title page, pen lettering in red and black below a figure of St Catherine superimposed on a broken wheel, all gold to be raised and burnished, all penscript in black.

Sources:

Photos: John and Mavis Dixon

Diocese of Durham
Faculty 4296, issued 07/11/1960

Additional Research Documents

C121.06 Photos of All Pages

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Research Acknowledgements:

John and Mavis Dixon;
Rev. Lyn Hallett

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Names Documents:

CROOK      St. Catherine’s Church

 

Front Flyleaf

  Herein

  are inscribed the

  names of those

  of this Parish and

  Congregation who

  made the Supreme

  Sacrifice in the

  years of the Second

  World War, 1939 –

  1945 and in Korea.

————————————

  January

  

  Alfred Edward Barry          1940

  Robert William Butterfield   1940

  Cecil Hedley                 1941

  Francis Victor Moses         1942

  Robert Moses                 1942

  John McGregor Stamper        1942

  Joseph Makepeace             1944

  Arthur Louvain Marshall      1944

  Robert Weighill              1944

  Francis Boughey              1945

————————————

  February

  Albert Best                  1941

  Thomas Robert Bayles         1942

  Sydney Ellison               1942

  Harold Jackson               1942

  Walter Jackson               1943

  Leslie Raymond Crossling     1945

————————————

  March

  John Whitfield Robinson      1942

  George Davison               1943

  Joseph Franklin Fothergill   1944

  Jackson Peart                1945

————————————

  April

  Frederick Davidson           1942

  John Groves                  1942

  William Nicoll               1942

  Ernest William Aspinall      1943

  Ronald Gowing                1943

  Alan Keillar Smith           1943

  Tom Ramage                   1944

  Joseph Naisbitt              1953

————————————

  May

  Stanley Wells Jenkinson      1940

  Leslie Kitchen Marshall      1940

  Daniel McDarby               1940

  Frank Reynolds               1940

  William Ronald Irwin         1943

  Thomas Jaye                  1943

  Francis Henry Tinkler        1943

  Frederick George Bulman      1944

  Thomas Chipchase             1944

  Edward Bousefield Machell    1944

  John Robert Roberts          1944

  Harold Askew                 1945

————————————

  June

  William Harrison             1940

  Norman Jewitt                1940

  Eric Thomas Dods Machell     1940

  George Spence                1940

  Thomas Lorraine Blakey       1942

  Harry Featherstone           1942

  Norman Pedelty               1942

  Thomas Carr                  1943

  Robert William Tarn          1943

  John James Burgess           1944

  Joseph Crooks                1944

  Arnold Dawson                1944

  Ronald Gill                  1944

  William Elliott Hall         1944

  William John Bousefield Henderson   1944

  William Hopps                1944

  Wilfred Pears                1944

————————————

  July

  Frederick William Reed       1940

  Herbert Leslie Reed          1941

  John Gibson                  1943

  Charles John Phillips        1943

  Norman Waddington            1943

  Henry Eland (Peter) Walton   1943

  Frank Hodgson                1944

  John Thomas Marcham Crow     1946

————————————

  August

  John Dempsey                 1940

  Frederick Reed               1940

  Norman Stevens               1944

————————————

  September

  Wilfred Hodgson              1942

  Evelyn Davies                1943

  Vivian Hutchinson            1943

  Robert Lawson                1943

  Gordon Birlison              1944

  Frank Harker                 1944

————————————

  October

  Redforth Hudspeth            1940

  Thomas Wright                1940

  John Moses                   1942

  John Kilvington Wilson       1942

  John Bell                    1943

  William Francis Stouph       1945

————————————

  November

  Arthur Page                  1942

  Frederick Johnson            1944

  John William Walter Wilson   1945

————————————

  December

  Arthur Ernest Robson         1940

  Laurence Hackett             1941

  William Marsden              1941

  Thomas Collingwood           1942

  William Tulip                1942

  Raymond Airey                1943

  Harry Walton Gardiner        1944

  Norman Russ                  1944

————————————

Rear Flyleaf

  Written out & illuminated

  by C.A. Howard for Messrs.

  J. Whippell & Co. Ltd. of Exeter,

  and completed on the third

  day of October, 1960. A. D.

  LAUS DEO

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