Memorial Details
Memorial
Roll of Honour 1914-18 Working Men's Club
Reference
E69.03
Place
EVENWOOD
Original Location
Working Men’s Club
Which war
1914-18
Memorial Description
Roll of honour behind glass in wood frame. The frame has an elaborate top which incorporates a badge carved in half relief and pilasters at the sides. The dedication is in the centre, with the quotation inside a laurel wreath. Around the edge are ten photographs.
Materials used
Paper behind glass in wood frame.
Inscription
Evenwood / Workmen’s / Club / Rollof Honour.
Their lot the glorious price to pay / Ours to record with grateful pride / That Freedom lives on earth today / Because they died.
Their lot the glorious price to pay / Ours to record with grateful pride / That Freedom lives on earth today / Because they died.
Names
Notes
1. The Evenwood Working Men's Club presented a silver tea pot to Bombardier Frederick Dunn, who survived the war. This was in recognition of his being awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the battlefield on 1st October 1918. The teapot is now held by a nephew. Frederick Dunn was brother to Thomas Henry Dunn
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photo: Kevin Richardson
Source of quotation
Their lot the glorious price to pay . . ." (Not ascertained)
Source of quotation
Their lot the glorious price to pay . . ." (Not ascertained)
External web link
Research acknowledgements
Kevin Richardson
Research In Progress
The names on the Evenwood WW 1 memorial have been researched by Kevin Richardson in his book Evenwood Remembers.
The names on the Evenwood WW 2 memorial have been researched by Kevin Richardson in his book Evenwood Remembers Once Again
Contact:
knrichardson53@gmail.com
Roll of Honour 1914-18 Working Men's Club (E69.03)
EVENWOOD Working Men’s Club
Evenwood
Workmen’s
Club
Roll of Honour.
Their lot the glorious price to pay
Ours to record with grateful pride
That Freedom lives on earth today
Because they died.
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Names starting from top left and going anti-clockwise.
Thomas Dunn
David Baister
James Heseltine
Mark Middlemas
William Carrick Jnr.
John H. Raine
Wallace Featherstone
John Maughan
Andrew Lynas
William Gray
NamesE69.03
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