Memorial Details
Memorial
Book of Remembrance 1939-45 Korea St. Catherine
Reference
C121.06
Place
CROOK
Map ref
NZ 165356
Original Location
St. Catherine’s Church, Church Street.
Which war
a. 1939-45
b. Korea 1951-3
b. Korea 1951-3
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. The Thompson of Kilburn mouse is at the bottom of the left front leg.
The book sits in a very plain glass-topped oak showcase below the plaque for 1914-18. The Thompson of Kilburn mouse is at the bottom of the left front leg.
Materials used
Oak case.
Paper, red leather book.
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”.
Names
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 3/10/1960
Notes
1. 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” by 9”, 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.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: John and Mavis Dixon
Diocese of Durham Faculty 4296, issued 7/11/1960
Diocese of Durham Faculty 4296, issued 7/11/1960
External web link
Research acknowledgements
John and Mavis Dixon; Rev. Lyn Hallett
Research In Progress
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Book of Remembrance 1939-45 Korea St. Catherine (C121.06)
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.
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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
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February
Albert Best 1941
Thomas Robert Bayles 1942
Sydney Ellison 1942
Harold Jackson 1942
Walter Jackson 1943
Leslie Raymond Crossling 1945
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March
John Whitfield Robinson 1942
George Davison 1943
Joseph Franklin Fothergill 1944
Jackson Peart 1945
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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
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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
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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
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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
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August
John Dempsey 1940
Frederick Reed 1940
Norman Stevens 1944
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September
Wilfred Hodgson 1942
Evelyn Davies 1943
Vivian Hutchinson 1943
Robert Lawson 1943
Gordon Birlison 1944
Frank Harker 1944
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October
Redforth Hudspeth 1940
Thomas Wright 1940
John Moses 1942
John Kilvington Wilson 1942
John Bell 1943
William Francis Stouph 1945
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November
Arthur Page 1942
Frederick Johnson 1944
John William Walter Wilson 1945
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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
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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
NamesC121.06
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