Memorial Details
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Memorial
Panelling 1914-18 All Saints
Reference
G9.22
Place
GOSFORTH
Map ref
NZ 240677
Original Location
All Saints Church, West Avenue. North west porch
Which war
1914-18
Memorial Description
Panelling, very plain, each panel 63 inches high x 16 inches wide with 2½ inch wide frame. Above is a plain cross, 2 feet high x 1 foot wide. Below the cross is a shelf, 42 inches wide x 8 inches deep. Beneath this are five panels, on which the dates "1914-1918" are on the central one, in red lettering, with "Jesu mercy" underneath in gold elaborate letters. The names are listed in a single column on each of the flanking panels. The names are painted in gilded elongated Roman capitals throughout.
Materials used
Oak
Inscription
1914-1918 / Jesu / Mercy
Names
How money was raised
Freewill offering.
Notes
1. A member of the Gosforth LHS told how the vicar exhorted his congregation to go and help a destitute family, either in thanks for their men returning, or in memory of those who had not. This vicar was the brother of “Woodbine Willy”.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: P. Thirkell; Tony Harding
Newcastle Daily Journal 09/04/1920 reports proposal to be proceeded with, paid for by freewill offering and no canvassing.
Diocese of Newcastle Faculty No.778 12/12/1921 (The wording here is "Remember the men belonging to this parish who died in the war 1914-1918. May light perpetual shine upon them and may they rest in peace." This appears not to have been used).
Newcastle Daily Journal 09/04/1920 reports proposal to be proceeded with, paid for by freewill offering and no canvassing.
Diocese of Newcastle Faculty No.778 12/12/1921 (The wording here is "Remember the men belonging to this parish who died in the war 1914-1918. May light perpetual shine upon them and may they rest in peace." This appears not to have been used).
Research acknowledgements
Sally Bird; Gosforth Local History Society; Philip Thirkell; J. Brown; Tony Harding
Research In Progress
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Panelling 1914-18 All Saints (G9.22)
GOSFORTH, All Saints' Church.
W. Allan C.H. Daggett, M.C. W.J. Mahon H. Scott
P. Anderson C.L. Dickinson G.W. Maude T. Scott
J. Archbold R. Dockeray J. Maude W.T. Scott
E.W. Aungiers R.W. Falconer W. Mitchell G. Shaw
G. Bailes R. Ferguson 1914 - 1918 W.D. Moffat J.W. Stephenson
T.G. Bainbridge W.G. Fleck J. Mole W. Stephenson
W. Bailey T.F. Forster Jesu H. Mosley W. Smith
M. Bell H. Gill H. Ord R. Swindle
R. Benson J. Henderson Mercy A. Patey A. Tate
I. Bradley S. Hepburn G.H. Phillipson J. Taylor
N. Braithwaite J. Hodgson J.H. Prudy F.E. Telford
R. Braithwaite G.R. Howe J.A. Pullan G. Thompson
J. Broadhurst T. Jobson W.S. Pullan J.N. Thomson
A. Brown T.W. Knox G. Purdy J. Walker
W. Brown L. Lamb J. Raper J.E. Watson
H. Burn F. Lawson B. Richardson P.E. Watson
F.C. Caird G. Lawton G.W. Sams H. Weightman
W. Cairns G.N. Levin, M.C. N. Weightman
J.L. Clapperton J.H. Lennie A. Willis
R. Cockburn L.S. Lennie
F.R. Curtice R. Lenin.
NamesG9.22
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