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Plaque 1939-45 Queen Elizabeth High School

Reference

H51.24

Place

HEXHAM

Map ref

NY 925640

Original Location

Queen Elizabeth High School, Fellside

Present Location

The memorial was removed from the Grammar School at Fellside when the new school in Whetstone Road was opened in April 1965. The school became a Comprehensive School in 1976.

Which war

1939-1945

Memorial Description

Plaque 61cm high x 122cm wide, mounted on a wood backing. This is the lower 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

1939 - 1945 / To the glory of Almighty God and in memory of those who fell / in the cause of freedom.

Names

55 full names.
See transcript.

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

English Heritage Listing

In Grade II Listed Building

Sculptor, Artist or Designer

E.H. Thew., Team Valley, Gateshead upon Tyne.

Notes

1 The school motto "Spes durat avorum" translates as "The hope of the ancestors lives on".

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: C.N. Dallison

Research acknowledgements

C.N. Dallison; Robert MacFarlane

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Plaque 1939-45 Queen Elizabeth High School (H51.24)

 
  HEXHAM, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School.
  
                  (Crest)
          GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
  A.1939          SPES DURAT AVORUM          1945.D
  
  To the glory of Almighty God and in memory of those who fell
  in the cause of freedom
  
  Robert Harvey Armstrong   John Ridley Elliott              Frank Robinson
  William Nicholson Barrie  Robert Wilkinson Foreman         George Ross
  Henry Greenwell Bell      Newell Graham                    Frank Wallace Rutherford
  Charles Frederick Best    John Donald Hall                 William Leonard Shield
  William Reay Blackburn    Kingsley Walworth David Hodgson  Frederick Joseph Alexander Steel
  Thomas Benson Bland       Thomas Hodgson                   Harold Cuthbert Stevenson
  Frank Thorburn Brown      Hugh Adair Lockhart              Ronald Ralph Tate
  Alfred Thomas Chilman     David John McNamee               Harold Scott Thew
  Cyril Scott Clemitson     Ernest James Mole                John Alan Robson Thompson
  John Edwin Craig          Joseph Henry Moody               Kenneth Wylam Walker
  William Curry             John Nattrass                    Oscar Wardle
  Edward Darlington         Harry Matthew Pattinson          Fred Ross Warwick
  Thomas Brown Darney       John Pearson                     William Edward Weatherley
  Norman Davison            Edward Portnell                  Nichol Weatherston
  John Harley Dixon         Woodrow Raine                    Ian Welch
  Cyril Doyle               John Hedley Rawson               John Stanley Wood
  Harold Eddy               Arthur John Ridley               William Angus Woodman
  Joseph Philip Edmondson   James Walton Ridley              John Railton Yielder
  Leslie Clifford
NamesH51.24

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