Memorial Details
Memorial
Bedspread 1914-18 Leazes Wing R.V.I.
Reference
NUT013
Place
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Map ref
NZ 244652
Original Location
Royal Victoria Infirmary. Leazes Hospital Wing. On the wall in a corridor.
Which war
1914-18
Memorial Description
Bedspread, approx. 7 feet 9 inches x 5 feet 9 inches, in a glass case attached to the wall. It is comprised of 35 individual squares embroidered with a flower pattern, each square the same design but different colours, with one square only worked in a different pattern. They are joined together in seven rows of five by handworked crochet. Each square bears the name of the person who worked the square and the Regiment. The central square bears the embroidered text "For King and Country, 1914-1918"
Alongside is a plaque 8 inches high x 12 inches wide set on a wood pattress 11 inches high x 15 inches wide. This tells the story in incised and blackened lower case Roman lettering.
Alongside is a plaque 8 inches high x 12 inches wide set on a wood pattress 11 inches high x 15 inches wide. This tells the story in incised and blackened lower case Roman lettering.
Materials used
Linen cloth; stainless steel plaque.
Inscription
On plaque:
The Leazes Bedspread / This bedspread was worked on / by injured members of the armed forces / recovering in the Leazes Hospital, part of the Royal Victoria Infirmary / built during the First World War 1914-1918. / Each of the flower-embroidered squares / bears the name of the servicemen who / completed the work and the initials of his unit.
On centre panel of bedspread
For King and / Country / 1914-1918
The Leazes Bedspread / This bedspread was worked on / by injured members of the armed forces / recovering in the Leazes Hospital, part of the Royal Victoria Infirmary / built during the First World War 1914-1918. / Each of the flower-embroidered squares / bears the name of the servicemen who / completed the work and the initials of his unit.
On centre panel of bedspread
For King and / Country / 1914-1918
Names
Present condition
Good.
Notes
1. Mrs. Stirling Newall was wife of Frederick Stirling Newall, managing director of Newall's, a large firm of wire-rope and cable makers in Teams, Gateshead. They lived at Birtley Hall until c1900 when they moved to Castle Hill House, Wylam. They lived there until their deaths, he in 1932 and she in 1933. The house was then given to the RVI by their sons in their memory. It is now owned and used by Gateshead Health Authority for elderly patients. Mrs. Newall was active in, among other things, organising nursing services to help in local convalescent homes and hospitals in Tyneside area during 1914-18 to treat wounded soldiers. Mr. and Mrs. Newall were Governors on several hospitals inc. R.V.I., and may have been benefactors.
2. Before the bedspread was restored, it bore a card which read: "For King and Country, 1914-1918" / Worked by wounded soldiers, / patients in the Leazes Hospital / during the 1914-18 War, and presented to Mrs. F. Stanley Newall / of Castle Hill, Wylam on Tyne.
2. Before the bedspread was restored, it bore a card which read: "For King and Country, 1914-1918" / Worked by wounded soldiers, / patients in the Leazes Hospital / during the 1914-18 War, and presented to Mrs. F. Stanley Newall / of Castle Hill, Wylam on Tyne.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: R.W. Gould; Dorothy Hall
Evening Chronicle 18/10/1993 reports the finding of the cloth after being hidden in a cupboard for 75 years.
100 years of the RVI 1906-2006. Edited by John Walton and Miles Irving. Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals.
Evening Chronicle 18/10/1993 reports the finding of the cloth after being hidden in a cupboard for 75 years.
100 years of the RVI 1906-2006. Edited by John Walton and Miles Irving. Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals.
Research acknowledgements
The late R.W. Gould; P.R.B. Brooks; Mr. Waggett, Leazes Hospital; Dorothy Hall; James Pasby
Research In Progress
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Bedspread 1914-18 Leazes Wing R.V.I. (NUT013)
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, Royal Victoria Infirmary.
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
R. Atkinson J. H. Thornton R. Lister
2/5 Yorks and Lancs 23 North Fus. 12 Leicesters
J. Mooney J. McNeill J. Fox
12 North Fus. Royal Irish Rifles 15 D.L.I.
F. Redhead L.Cpl. E. Smith R. Holbrook
14 Royal Warwicks. 3 S.S. 11 Lancs. Fus.
R. Bailey Priv. H. Baxter FOR KING AND
D.C.M. COUNTRY
14 Yorks & Lancs. 1 W Yorks 1914 1918
W. Keery W. Cleary W. Fox
5th Cameron HDS. 2 Irish Guards 2 Yorks.
T. Bowness C.Q.M. S. Anderson Sergt. T. Thompson
R.F.A. 7 H.L.I. R.F.A.
J. Jackson E. Rutherford A. Allcoat
R.N.D. 32 N.F. M.G.C.
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Column 4 Column 5
G. Short A. Salmon
9 D.L.I. 6 London Rifles
P.O.W. Parvin A. Fair
H.M.S. Furious R.S.A.
E.A. Shaw A. Crooks
R.F.A. D. of W.
W. Chaffer F.W. Brown
12 Yorks & Lancs. R.F.A.
D. Linton A. Kellet
31 Canadians R.F.A.
J. Whitfield R. Storer
3 North. Fus. E. Yorks.
T. Shannon J. Brockett
R.F.A. 12 M.G.C.
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On plaque:
The Leazes Bedspread
This bedspread was worked on
by injured members of the armed forces
recovering in the Leazes Hospital,
part of the Royal Victoria Infirmary
built during the First World War 1914-1918.
Each of the flower-embroidered squares
bears the name of the servicemen who
completed the work and the initials of his unit.
NamesNUT013
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