Memorial

Book of Remembrance 1939-45 St. Aidan

Chilton Buildings

Memorial Name: Book of Remembrance 1939-45 St. Aidan (C107.05)

NEWMP Ref No.: C107.05

Parish: Chilton Buildings

Original Location:

St. Aidan’s Church, on A167 Durham Road South of Ferryhill.

Which War:

1939-1945

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

1948

Materials Used:

Parchment, leather bound book.

Oak case.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Written and illustrated by C.A. Howard for Messrs. J. Wippell and Co. Ltd., Exeter.

Inscription:

Book of
Remembrance
1939-1945
Laus Deo
Remembering
before God
those of this parish
who gave their lives in the
Second World War 1939-1945

The Stained Glass
in the east end of the
Church is placed there in proud
& honoured memory of the men
whose names are herein written.

Memorial Description:

Book of Remembrance, 10 inches high x 7 inches wide (25cms x 18cms).

This bound in red leather with the title tooled in red and gold.

The names are handwritten on four parchment pages, using black ink with red initials.

They are listed according to the month in which they died.

At intervals on each page is a tiny oak leaf.

The book is contained in a case 18 inches wide x 12 inches deep (46cms x 61cms)with sloping glass top.

The words “In Remembrance 1939-1945” are carved along the front.

Names:

42 names and dates of death.
See transcript.

Sources:

Photos: C. Sanders; Dorothy Hall

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C. Sanders;
Dorothy Hall

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Names Documents:

CHILTON BUILDINGS      St. Aidan’s Church

 

  Book of

  Remembrance

  1939-1945

 

  Remembering

  before God

  those of this parish

  who gave their lives in the

  Second World War 1939-1945

 

  The Stained Glass

  in the East end of the

  Church is placed there in proud

  & honoured memory of the men

  whose names are herein written.

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Page 1

  W. Neasham         1 Jan. 1943

  E. Leighton       12 Jan. 1941

  A. Davies         13 Jan. 1944

  Raymond Laverick  15 Jan. 1944

  E.B. Greenwell    19 Jan. 1945

  Ritchie Laverick  25 Jan. 1942

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Page 2

 

  J. McGowan        21 Jan. 1944     

  D. Levitt         29 Jan. 1945     

  T.H. Jackson      12 Feb. 1943     

  R. Pearson        24 Feb. 1943     

  T. Curley                 1942            

  J.B. Kelly        1 March 1940    

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Page 3

  R. Phillips       1 March 1945

  J. Dickinson     13 March 1941

  W. Edmunds       21 March 1944

  L.A. Hewitt      19 April 1944

  R. Farnaby       27 April 1941

  G.E. Smedley     29 April 1944

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Page 4

  R. Hughes                 1942            

  G.E. Parkin         7 May 1942      

  W.F. Bryce         20 May 1942     

  S.S. Pratt         22 May 1941     

  D.T. Boycott       6 June 1942     

  G.O. Hunter        8 June 1943

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Page 5

  O.N. Stewart      15 June 1944

  H. Cullum         17 June 1943

  T. Raine          16 July 1943

  L. Ridley                 1944

  J. Atterby         3 Aug. 1944

  J. Aspey          10 Aug. 1944

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Page 6

  

  E.W. Hedley       12 Sept.1942    

  J. Calland        13 Sept.1944    

  T.H. Race        30 Sept. 1940    

  R. Thompson        9 Oct. 1943      

  E. Savory         23 Oct. 1941

  J. Neesam         Date unknown

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Page 7

  F. Etherington     8 Nov. 1942

  J.W. Robson       11 Nov. 1943

  J.M. Vitty        19 Dec. 1944

  J. Dixon          25 Dec. 1943

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  Written & Illuminated

  by C.A. Howard for

  Messrs. J. Wippell & Co.Ltd.

  of Exeter.  January, 1948.

  LAUS DEO.

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