Memorial Details
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Memorial
Plaque 1914-18 Queen Elizabeth High School
Reference
H51.23
Place
HEXHAM
Map ref
NY 925640
Original Location
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School
Present Location
Queen Elizabeth High School, Whetstone Bridge Road. See note below.
Which war
1914-18
Memorial Description
Plaque 61cm high x 122cm wide, mounted on a wood pattress. This is the higher of two plates mounted on the same board. In the centre top of each is an embossed and enamelled copy of the school badge, with the appropriate date on either side of the badge, written in Gothic lettering. The names are listed in three columns, with a vertical line between each column, using sans serif capitals.
Materials used
Brass plaque.
Inscription
A.D. 1914 - 1918 / To the glory of Almighty God the only giver of all victory / and the memory of the fallen thankfully dedicated.
Names
Who commissioned
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Old Boys' Association.
How money was raised
By subscription from members of the Old Boys' Association.
Present condition
Good
Sculptor, Artist or Designer
E.H. Thew., Team Valley, Gateshead upon Tyne.
Notes
1. The 1939-45 memorial was removed from the Grammar School at Fellside, Hexham, when the new school was opened in April 1965. The plaque for 1914-18 was then made to match the one for 1939-45, and the two plaques fixed to the same mounting. The original 1914-18 plaque, which records 113 names of those who served and died, was left in the Fellside School when it became the Middle School.
2. 1The school motto translates as "The hope of the ancestors lives on".
3. In 1965 Hexham’s Queen Elizabeth Grammar School appealed to its Old Boy’s Association to raise £100 to enable war memorials dedicated to ex-pupils to be transferred from the old school to the new premises in Whetstone Bridge Road.
2. 1The school motto translates as "The hope of the ancestors lives on".
3. In 1965 Hexham’s Queen Elizabeth Grammar School appealed to its Old Boy’s Association to raise £100 to enable war memorials dedicated to ex-pupils to be transferred from the old school to the new premises in Whetstone Bridge Road.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: C.N. Dallison
Hexham Courant 14/08/2015 feature “50 years ago” reports item in Note 3 above.
Hexham Courant 14/08/2015 feature “50 years ago” reports item in Note 3 above.
Research acknowledgements
C.N. Dallison; Robert MacFarlane
Research In Progress
Alan Grint has researched the names on the Hexham memorials in his book The Faith and Fire Within, 2006, Ergo Press ISBN 0955275814
Contact:-Cogito books 01434 602555
Plaque 1914-18 Queen Elizabeth High School (H51.23)
HEXHAM, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School.
(Crest)
GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
A.1914 SPES DURAT AVORUM 1918.D
To the glory of Almighty God the only giver of all Victory
and the Memory of the Fallen thankfully dedicated
Howard Dixon Bell John Miller Emerson Godfrey Raymond Vickers
John Joseph Birnie Cecil Harrison Thomas William Wallace
William Stainthorpe Burn William Ernest Marshall Robert Welch
William Dainty Robert Ramsay Robson Harry Lowes Willey
Reginald Samuel Eaton Wilkinson Rowell Alexander Wright
William Richard Thew
NamesH51.23
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