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Book of Remembrance 1914-18 1939-45 St. Oswald

Reference

W2.08

Place

WALKER on TYNE (N'castle/Walker)

Original Location

St. Oswald’s Church, Woodhead Road, Walkergate.

Which war

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

Dedication, Creation or Publication date

22nd January 1956

Memorial Description

Book of Remembrance in glass case. It has a leather cover tooled in gold. The fly leaf has a St. Oswald’s Cross.

Inscription

Book of Remembrance / A memorial to those from this Parish who made the / Supreme Sacrifice in the wars / 1914 – 1918 / 1939 – 1945/
Presented by fellow parishioners 22nd January 1956 /
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.

Names

Who commissioned

Parishioners

Sculptor, Artist or Designer

Written and Illuminated by John Henshall.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: Friend of Joan Jobling; Tony Harding

Source of quotation:
“They shall grow not old . . . .” For the Fallen Lawrence Binyon.

Research acknowledgements

Friend of Joan Jobling; Tony Harding

Research In Progress

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Book of Remembrance 1914-18 1939-45 St. Oswald (W2.08)

 
WALKER St. Oswald’s Church 
  
   [Cover]
   St. Oswald
   Walkergate

    
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   St. Oswald
    [St. Cuthbert’s Pectoral Cross]
   Walkergate

    
   Book of
   Remembrance
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   A
   Memorial
   to those from this Parish
   who made the Supreme Sacrifice
   in the Wars
   1914-18
   1939-46.

    
    [Maltese Cross]

    
   Presented
   by fellow parishioners,
   22nd January, 1956.
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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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   Adamson, John Faulds         Carlile, Thomas
   Armistead, A.M.              Carr, James Chandler
   Armstrong, James             Carty, John James
   Atkinson, Alfred Stanley     Cockburn, Frederick
   Atkinson, John James         Collins, G.
                                Coombs, Herbert George
   Barry, James                 Cosgrave, Thomas
   Barry, Patrick               Craig, James
   Bell, Stewart                Crighton, J.
   Bennett, John Thomas         Cummings, James
   Berry, Edward                Curry, Robert Dowson
   Bilsland, Harold William
   Bird, Henry James            Delaney, Thomas
   Birtley, James               Dobinson, John Robert
   Bowman, Sidney Miller        Dowling, William
   Brown, John Ruck             Drake, Norman Richard
   Brown, Leslie
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   Elliott, Leslie              Hagan, Albert
                                Hall, James Wesley
   Fairlamb, Robert Whyman      Harrison, Raine
   Farqhar, William             Heppell, Albert Edmund
   Fay, Timothy                 Hindmarch, James
   Findlay, George Edward       Hopkins, Edward
   Fitzpatrick, Sarah Agnes     Hornsby, Charles
   Fletcher, Frank              Howard, Anthony Ryott G.
   Floody, Thomas Henry
   Forster, Thomas Lang         Jackson, John
   Frew, Ernest                 Jobey, Stanley
                                Jobe, Thomas
   Gallagher, Anthony           Johns, Robert George
   Gibson, J.B.                 
   Greenwell, Henry James       Knox, Joseph
   Guy, William McVey
                             Laing, Geoffrey
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   Lally, Michael               Mullarkey, John
   Lamb, Edward                 Musham, George
   Lamb, George Douglas         
   Leach, George James          Naylor, Robert
   Leach, Robert                
   Lejeune, J.                  Parkins, James
   Luke, John Norman            Patton, Neville James
   Lynn, John George            Peterson, Victor Arthur
                                Pinchard, John
   Mallen, James Patrick        Poole, James Douglas
   Maloy, John Joseph           Proctor, Norman
   Marley, George Percival      
   McCarron, George Andrew      Reed, J.W.
   McDonald, James              Roberts, Thomas
   Monaghan, James              Robson, Thomas
   Mooney, John                 Rutherford, Philip
   Morrison, Albert Lowry
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   Saint, John                  Varty, George
   Saint, Ralph
   Salkeld, George              Walker, William
   Sambidge, John Bennett       Ward, Bernard
   Simpson, George              Watt, James Kennedy
   Simpson, Thomas              Weallends, Alfred
   Shotton, John George         Wilson, William
   Spence, Samuel George S.     Wood, Frederick John
   Steele, William James
   Stewart, James               Young, Robert Oswald
   Stoddart, Norman William     Young, W.L.
   Swinbank, Robert Mathias
                                Constantine, Robert
   Taylor, John Burns           Hazen, William Edward
   Thompson, Claude             Moss, Joseph Jesse
   Thompson, William            Written and illuminated by John Henshall
   Tonks, Jean
   Gowing, George Raymond De Garis
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There are some of errors on these names:
   Farqhar, William should be Farquhar, William
   Maloy, John Joseph should be Molloy, John Joseph
   Peterson, Victor Arthur should be Petersen, Victor Arthur
   Sambidge, John Bennett should be Sambridge, John Bennett
   Weallends, Alfred should be Wealands, Alfred
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