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Plaque 1939-45 Holy Trinity

Reference

S127.04

Place

SOUTH HETTON

Map ref

NZ 383451

Original Location

Holy Trinity Church, Front Street. In the nave.

Which war

1939-45

Memorial Description

Plaque 2 feet 6 inches high x 1 foot 6 inches wide on oak pattress which is 4 inches wider. There is a single line border. The dates are at an angle across the top corners. The names are listed in two columns, using only the top half of the plaque. Lettering is in Roman capitals.

Materials used

Brass on oak pattress.

Inscription

1939-1945 / Roll of Honour
�Greater love hath no man / than this�.

Names

27 full names.
See transcript.

Cost

�150

How money was raised

Parish Council

Sculptor, Artist or Designer

A1 Sports & Trophies, Peterlee.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: C. Sanders; Dorothy Hall; Simon Raine

Diocese of Durham Faculty number 7996, issued 17/5/1995

The Monumental Brasses of County Durham William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore 2002 ISBN 095 4327101

A Gathering of Eagles, Robert Dixon, PublishAmerica, 2004 ISBN 1 4137 3498 7 contains an account of the service of Sergeant John Morrison in pages 207-211

Source of quotation
�Greater love hath no man . . .� St. John 15 v 13

External web link

Durham at War

Research acknowledgements

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; C. Sanders; John and Mavis Dixon; Dorothy Hall; Tony Harding

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Plaque 1939-45 Holy Trinity (S127.04)

SOUTH HETTON      Holy Trinity Church

  1939      Roll of Honour      1945

  Donald Anderson      William Johnson

  William Baty         Alan Jones

  William Scott Baty   Ralph Lemon

  Simon Barron         Albert Noble

  James Burnett        James Palmer

  William Boad         William Parkin

  Ernest Carr          Isaac Richardson

  James Donkin         Fred Reed

  Martin Duddin        Fred Roxby

  Horace Emery         Lance Seymour

  John William Gray    George Stubbs

  Charles Guy          Richard Smithson

  Ernest Hellyn        James Turner

  Albert Richard Wheeler

  “Greater love hath no man

  than this”.

NamesS127.04

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