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Memorial

Photos 1914-18 Social Club

Reference

H116.03

Place

HASWELL

Original Location

Social Club. In Billiard Room.

Which war

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date

Unveiled April 1921 by Cllr. Peter Lee, Chairman of Durham County Council.

Memorial Description

�The memorial takes the shape of a picture 4 ft 6 ins x 4 ft, with coloured design centre, and bearing the name, rank and regiment of members who have served and have returned, whilst around the outside are the portraits, surrounded with dark (/) of the 24 members who have made the supreme sacrifice.�

Materials used

Framed in heavy oak

Inscription

�And how can men die better / Than by facing fearful odds; / For the Ashes of their Fathers, / And the Temples of their Gods.

Names

NEED TRANSCRIPT

Present condition

Lost

Sculptor, Artist or Designer

CWS Picture Dept., Newcastle upon Tyne.

Notes

1. The club was demolished and the site redeveloped as Hazel Court.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Shields Daily News 21/04/1921

Auckland and County Gazette 21/04/1921 reports unveiling.

Source of quotation:
�And how can men die better� from The Poem �Horatio� in �Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas B. Macaulay.

External web link

Durham at War

Research acknowledgements

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; Philip Soakell; Dorothy Hall

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