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Photo: David Petrie

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Memorial

Panelling 1914-18 St. Oswin

Reference

W73.01

Place

WYLAM

Map ref

NZ 113647

Original Location

Church of St. Oswin, Church Road. West end of church.

Which war

1914-1918

Dedication, Creation or Publication date

Unveiled Advent Sunday 1925.

Memorial Description

Panels, each 96cm high x 34cm wide, being the middle and right hand panels of a set of three. The dates �1914� and �1918� are separated by a cross. The names are incised in a single column on each panel using Roman capitals throughout.
The third panel is for 1939-45 (see W73.06).

Materials used

Oak

Inscription

To the glory of God / and in grateful memory of / (names) / Pro Patria

Names

48 full names.
See transcript

Notes

1. In 1914-18, 70 men enlisted, including 5 bellringers from St. Oswin�s.

2. James Leadbitter Knott �see Every Name a Story

Henry Basil Knott see Every Name a Story

Thomas Garbutt Knott see Every Name a Story

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: J. Brown; Paul Graham; David Petrie

Research acknowledgements

Paul Graham (Prudhoe Local History Society); P. Thirkell; Tony Harding; David Petrie

Research In Progress

The names for 1914-18 are being researched by Aubrey Smith, Philip Brooks and Roy Koerner. Contact: aubreywylam@hotmail.co.uk

Panelling 1914-18 St. Oswin (W73.01)

WYLAM, Church of  St.Oswin.

   1914   +   1919               1914   +   1919

   To the Glory of God           Joseph Edward McCarthy

   and in grateful memory        William Francis McKenna

         of                      Joseph Milburn

   John Edward Adams             Joseph H. Nevin

   Joseph Forster Appleby        J. Wilfred Nevin

   John Ismay Atkinson           John Thomas Nixon

   Fred Bean                     Gerald Paget

   William Hall Bradley          Algernon George Parsons

   James Blythe                  Joseph Pattinson

   Edward Carr                   Henry Quentin Ridley

   William Richmond Clephan      George Robson

   George Cowings                Thomas Rutter

   Charles Andrew Dodd           Charles Springett

   John Dolan                    Alfred Turnbull

   James Henry Forster           Thomas A. Turnbull

   William Forster               Robert Turnbull

   Thomas Gelson                 Henry Turnbull

   Walter Hindley                Richard Watson

   Wilfred Hines                 Alexander White

   Frederick Hunter              William Watson Wild

   Jacob Irwin                   Charles Leyburn Wilkinson

   Frederick Johnson             Jack Winder

   James Leadbitter Knott        Frederick Henry Wright

   Henry Basil Knott             William Wrightson

   Lisle Lathan                  John William Young

   Frederick Leathard

   William Macaulay                   Pro Patria

Names W73.01

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