Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 Berwick Grammar School

Berwick upon Tweed

Memorial Name: Plaque 1914-18 Berwick Grammar School (B25.21)

NEWMP Ref No.: B25.21

Parish: Berwick upon Tweed

Original Location:

Berwick Grammar School

Present Location:

Berwick Academy, Adams Drive, Spittal, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 2JF

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled Thursday 23rd September 1920 by Mr. A.L. Miller, J.P.;
dedicated by the Rev. R.C. Inglis.

Materials Used:

Bronze in oak frame.

How Money was Raised:

Presented by Sir Francis D. Blake, C.B., M.P. (former pupil and Governor of the School)

Inscription:

To the Glory of God and in
Loving Memory of Former
Pupils of this School who
Gave their Lives in the Great
War 1914-1919.

Virtutis Quaesiverunt Gloriam Vident Dei

Memorial Description:

Plaque set in a wood frame approx. 54 inches high x 54 inches wide (137cms x 137cms).

Across the top is a spray of ?acanthus leaves, with a dog and a ?fly in the right hand corner.

At each side is a grieving woman, raised in half relief, the left hand one is bare headed and carries a wreath; the right hand one has a veil on her head.

The names are listed in two columns.

All lettering is in raised elaborate capital letters throughout.

Names:

32 full names.
See transcript.

Sources:

Photos: Tony Harding

Berwick Advertiser
19/10/1917 reports last Prize Day address which includes the personal details of seven former pupils who made the supreme sacrifice since the last Prize Day.

Northumberland Record Office :
Programme for Dedication service, Ref. CES.56/1/1;
Berwick Grammar and High Schools Minute Book 1916-1935

Roll of Honour, 1914-18 de Rivigny

Source of quotation:
Virtutis Quaesiverunt Gloriam Vident Dei (?“They looked for courage and saw the glory of God”)

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Tony Harding

Research In Progress:

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Names Documents:

BERWICK   High School

 

  To the glory of God and in

  Loving memory of former

  Pupils of this school who

  Gave their lives in the Great

  War 1914-1919

 

  John Edgar Boal         Andrew Berghaus McCreath

  Joseph Henry Boston     Alexander Lorimer Miller

  George Pratt Boyd       Thomas Murray Miller

  George Henry Evans      Robert Muir

  Robert Forester         Thomas Edward Nicholson

  Edward Gray             Gilbert James Piercy

  William Grieve          John Stewart Gilchrist Reid

  John Hendry             Michael Reilly

  Peter Geddes Hendry     Eric William Wright Sandison

  Robert Fish Hills       Frank Weddell Smail

  Walter Hogarth          Noel Alexander Smith

  Robert How Hunter       James Stawart

  Norman Archibald Hunter John Straffen

  John Kincaid            William Thomson

  Alexander Macnab        Robert Oakley Thorp

  John Marshall           David Brown Walker

  Virtutis quaesiverunt gloriam vident Dei

  Charles Stuart

———————————-

The dedication programme reads as follows, with a

slight variation on two or three names.

  “To commemorate the names of former pupils

  who gave their lives in the service of our

  Empire in the Great War 1914-1919”

  Boal,John Edgar

  Boston, John Henry

  Boyd, George Pratt

  Evans, George Henry

  Forester, Robert

  Gray, Edward

  Grieve, William

  Hendry, John

  Hendry. Peter Geddes

  Hills, Robert Fish

  Hogarth, Walter

  Hunter, Robert How

  Hunter, Norman Archibald

  Kincaid, John

  MacNab, Alexander

  Marshall, John Robert

  McCreath. Andrew Berghaus

  Miller, Alexander Lorimer

  Miller, Thomas Murray

  Muir, Robert

  Nicholson, Thomas Edward

  Piercy, Gilbert James

  Reid, John Stewart Gilchrist

  Reilly, Michael

  Sandison, Eric William Wright

  Smail, Frank Weddell

  Smith Alexander Noel

  Stawart, James

  Straffen, John

  Thomson, William

  Thorp, Robert Oakley V.

  Walker, David Brown

 

  “Let not their glory fade.”  

NamesB25.21   

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