Memorial

Roll of Honour 1914-18 1939-45 St. Peter

Falstone

Memorial Name: Roll of Honour 1914-18 1939-45 St. Peter (F6.01)

NEWMP Ref No.: F6.01

Parish: Falstone

Original Location:

St. Peter’s Church, Falstone Village.

Present Location:

Now in the vestry

Which War:

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

Materials Used:

Paper in glass fronted frame.

Inscription:

a.
Falstone
War Memorial
1914-18
(Names)

b.
1939-1945
(Names)

“Salute the glorious dead who went out and returned not”

Memorial Description:

Roll of Honour behind glass in a wood frame 12 inches high x 18 inches wide (32cms x 46cms).

On either side of the title is a water colour sketch of the local countryside.

The names for 1914-18 and 1939-45 are each listed in three columns, hand-written in black ink.

The title, dates and exhortation at the bottom are in red.

Names:

a. 28 full names.
b. 8 full names.
See transcript

Notes:

This is water damaged.

Sources:

Photos: J. Brown; P. Thirkell; Tony Harding

Source of quotation
“Salute the glorious dead . .” Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration on 21st July 1865 James Russell Lowell.

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Bellingham and North Tyne Local History Society;
Philip Thirkell;
Tony Harding;
Jill Swaile

Research In Progress:

Alan Grint researched the WW1 names on this memorial in his book In Silent Fortitude: In Memory of the Men of the North Tyne Valley who Fell in the Great War; 2011; Ergo Press; ISBN 9780955751097:

Contact:-Cogito books 01434 602555

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Names Documents:

FALSTONE, St. Peter’s Church.

 

  Falstone

  War Memorial

  1914-1918

 

  Archibald Bell      William Armstrong   Frank Armstrong

  John Dodd           George Davidson     John Darcy

  James O. Elliott    Christopher Elliott Walter Dodd

  Richard E. Harrison Thomas Foster       Robert N. Famelton

  Christopher Inglis  George Hymers       John Hymers

  William Little      James Jobling       David Jackson

  Matthew Robson      Roger R. Potts      William Moscrop

  Walter Sisterson    John J. Rome        David Rolfe

  Thomas Welsh        David Steele        Frank Steel

                      James Wylie

 

  1939-1945

 

  Andrew Fletcher     John L. Bird        James T. Cowan

  Hector Inglis       Thomas G. Grimwood  Raymond Terry

  Alex. P. Weir       Edward Fiddler

 

  “Salute the glorious dead who went out and returned not”

NamesF6.01

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