Memorial Details
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Memorial
Book of Remembrance 1939-45 St. John
Reference
H62.04
Place
HIRST
Map ref
NZ 281862
Original Location
Church of St. John the Evangelist, Newbiggin Road / Nursery Park. in St. Matthew's Chapel.
Which war
1939-45
Memorial Description
Book of Remembrance, quarto size, bound in black leather with a tooled gold cross on the front cover, and gold edges to the leaves. It is on display in a wood case. The front pages are illuminated, and the lists inside are handwritten in black ink.
Materials used
Vellum
Inscription
Diocese of Newcastle / Parish of / St. John the Baptist / Seaton Hirst / A Book of Remembrance / 1939-1945
Names
Sculptor, Artist or Designer
J.N. Dawes
Notes
1. Apart from the title page, this Book is a complete duplicate of the Book kept in St. Andrew's Church, Seaton Hirst (H62.02)
2. The book's dedication says "St.John the Baptist" but the church is dedicated to St.John the Evangelist. The Diocesan website says simply "St.John".
2. The book's dedication says "St.John the Baptist" but the church is dedicated to St.John the Evangelist. The Diocesan website says simply "St.John".
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: J. Brown
Research acknowledgements
J. Brown
Research In Progress
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Book of Remembrance 1939-45 St. John (H62.04)
HIRST (Seaton Hirst) Church of St.John the Baptist
Diocese of Newcastle
Parish of
St. John the Baptist
Seaton Hirst
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A
Book
of
Remembrance
1939-1945
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They shall grow not old.
As we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will
remember
them.
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St John the Baptist
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Askew, Raymond
R.A.F. died 16th Dec. 1943
Allan, John Robert
R.A. died 5th May 1946
Burton, Fred.
R.N.F. died 6-7 June 1942
Balmer, John Henry
R.N. died 15th March 1942
Brown, John Adde
R.N.F. died 24th May 1940
Burrell, Walter Grey Gibson
Cameronians died 26th Oct. 1944
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Belshaw, David
R.N. died 4th March 1942
Brown, George William
R.A.F. died 9th Oct. 1940
Brown, David Robert
R.A.F. died 19th July 1944
Bell, Robert
R.A.F. died 28th June 1940
Charlton, Arthur
R.A.M.C. died 7th Dec. 1941
Charlton, Douglas
Grenadier Guards. died 3rd Sept. 1944
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Cotterill, John Charles
R.N. died 2nd March 1942
Carter, Frederick William James
R.A. died 7th Sept. 1944
Cowan, Robert
R.A.F. died 21st Sept. 1944
Crowe, Donald McBean
R.A.F. died 9th Feb. 1945
Donkin, Alexander Tait
R.A.F. missing 8th Feb. 1942
Dixon, James William
R.A. died 2nd June 1940
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Dunn, Leslie Atkinson
North'd. Hussars died 7th Aug. 1941
Dunn, Noreen Frances
A.T.S. died 5th March 1945
Elliott, Thomas Robert
R.A.F. died 5-6th Oct. 1942
Emery, William J.
R.A.F. died 10th Oct. 1939
Edes, Henry Matthew
R.N. died 24th May 1941
Freeman, Leslie
R.A.F. died 8th Aug. 1938
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Foreman, Jack Smith
K.O.Y.L.I. died 2nd Sept. 1944
Foster, William
R.N.F. died 3rd Nov. 1942
Gray, William Watson Curry
R.N. died 12th June 1942
Gibson, Ronald
R.N. died 24th Sept. 1942
Hogg, James
R.N.F. died 12th Sept. 1944
Hall, John
D.L.I. died 21st Dec. 1942
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Holmes, Francis
R.N. died 17th Oct. 1943
Hyde, Isaiah
R.N. died 14th Dec. 1944
Harris, Joseph Edward
D.L.I. died 27th Sept. 1943
Hart, William
D.L.I. died 4th May 1944
Hutton, Norman
R.N. died 18th Dec. 1944
Jacques, Richard
R.A.F. died 4th July 1944
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Johnson, Leslie
R.N.F. died 31st May 1940
Murdie, Thomas Sydney Walker
R.A.F. died 3rd Feb. 1944
McLean, Alexander
R.N.F. died 17th June 1944
Morrall, George
R.A.F. missing 19th-20th Feb. 1943
McAllister, Robert
Coldstream Guards died 2nd Oct. 1942
Miller. George
R.N. presumed died 1st Jan. 1943
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Morton, John William
R.A.F. died 13th June 1944
Miles, Harry Thompson
D.L.I. died 8th Aug. 1943
Mills, David Kinnaird
R.A.F. died 7th Aug. 1940
Morris, Robert
R.A.F. died 3rd June 1944
Miller, Henry
R.A.F. died 2nd Feb. 1944
Milburn, William
R.N.F. died 31st Aug. 1943
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Nichol, James
R.A.F. died 25th Dec. 1944
Pringle, Alexander Swan
2nd Derby. Yeom. died 17th Aug. 1944
Pickering, James Albert
Queen's Royal Regt. died 25th Oct. 1942
Paul, Thomas
R.N. died 23rd Nov. 1942
Pyle, Charles
H.A.C. R.H.A. died 20th July 1944
Prail, Douglas Haig
R.E. died 23rd Sept. 1942
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Parry, Rowland
R.A.S.C. died 7th March 1944
Preston, George
R.A.F. died 14th Feb. 1945
Robson, James William
R.A.F. died 2nd April 1945
Robinson, Matthew
R.A. died 27th Nov. 1942
Rose, John Henry
R.E. died 5th Sept. 1944
Riddell, George R.S.
R.A.F. died 21st Nov. 1945
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Stothard, Harry Reed
R.A.F. died 19th Sept. 1940
Steele, Norman Thompson
R.A.F. died 1st Jan. 1944
Shield, Norman
R.A.F. died 21st April 1943
Sinclair, Thomas Hilton Hume
Reconn. Corps. died 13th Feb. 1943
Stephenson, William Robert
R.A. died 22nd Nov. 1944
Stephenson, George A. Stanton
died 4th Sept. 1944
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Steel, Joseph Harold
R.A. died 4th Jan. 1947
Stark, J.
7th Cameronians
Turnbull, John William
R.N.F. died 24th June 1940
Tynan, Stanley, M.M.
1st Paratroop Regt. died 18 Jan. 1945
Wilson, John
Yorks & Lancs. died 21st Jan. 1944
Watson, Sidney
King's Own (Lpool) Regt. 5th Nov.'44.
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Wolfendale, Richard Ernest Sanders
R.N. died 23rd Jan. 1940
York, Thomas
R.N. died 28th March 1943
Burton, F.H.
R.A. died 10th February 1941
Hall, Benjamin George
East Lancs. died 12th April 1945
Jeffreys, Herbert
M.N. died 19th Sept. 1941
Love, James W.
R.A.F. died 31st March 1944
NamesH62.04
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