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Memorial Details

Photo: Dorothy Hall

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Memorial

Screen 1939-45 St. John the Evangelist

Reference

G39.065

Place

GATESHEAD

Map ref

NZ 264604

Original Location

Church of St. John the Evangelist, Church Road, Sherriff Hill, Gateshead Fell.

Which war

1939-45

Memorial Description

Screen, 10 feet high x 9 feet 4 inches wide. It comprises 18 panels, a smaller row of 6 above two large rows of 6, with the middle panels having a traceried top. The dedication is carved on the divider between upper and middle panels using Roman capitals. The names are incised in a single column on the two centre middle panels.

Materials used

Light oak?

Inscription

This panelling was erected to the memory of the men and women / of the parish of Gateshead Fell who died in the World War 1939 - 1945

Names

39 names and ranks.
See transcript.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: C. Sanders; Dorothy Hall

External web link

Durham at War

Research acknowledgements

C. Sanders; Dorothy Hall

Research In Progress

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Screen 1939-45 St. John the Evangelist (G39.065)

GATESHEAD Church of St. John the Evangelist

   This panelling was erected to the memory of the men and women

   of the parish of Gateshead Fell who died in the World War 1939 - 1945

   Lieut.  T. Armstrong           Sgt.   T. Potts

   Sgt.Navigator T. Bell          Radio Off.  B. Purdy

   Cpl. J.R. Bennett              Dvr. T.N. Radcliffe

   W/Bdr.  A. Bowman              F/O  R. Roberts

   Spr.  A.E. Charlton            Dvr.  D. Servant

   Cpl.  C. Coxon                 2nd Off. C.A.A. Simonsen

   Gdsman.  J.T. Douglass         Gnr.  T.C. Southern

   P/O  W. Fisher                 Chief Stkr. J.F. Stephenson

   Isabella Forster               Pte.  A. Teasdale

   Cpl.  G. Gibson                Eng. Lieut. Com. H.N. Temple

   F/O  J.N. Grey                 O/S  R. Thain

   3rd Eng.  J.J. Harrison        Snr. 2nd Eng.  H.N. Thornton

   Gnr.  C. Henderson             2nd Lieut.  H. Tyerman

   Pte.  W. Henderson             L.A.C.  M.H. Winship

   L.A.C.W.  W. Hutchinson        Marine  G.E. Wall

   Gnr.  F. Lowdon                Gnr.  J.H. Wall

   Cpl.  S.W. Margerrison         P/O  J.F. Ward

   Sgt.  A.F. Marshall            Sigmn.  T.A. Yeaman

   Sgt. Pilot  H. Matson          Sgt.  R.W.C. Yeaman

   Tpr.  E. Miller

NamesG39.65

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