Memorial

Book of Remembrance 1939-45 St. Gabriel

Heaton

Memorial Name: Book of Remembrance 1939-45 St. Gabriel (H91.06)

NEWMP Ref No.: H91.06

Parish: Heaton

Original Location:

St. Gabriel’s Church, 2 St. Gabriel’s Road on the corner with Heaton Road, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE6 5QD. NZ 26811 66099.

Which War:

1939-45

Materials Used:

Oak

Vellum pages with a red rexine cover.

Cost:

£200

How Money was Raised:

Public subscription.

Present Condition: Good

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

A.K. Tasker and Austin Child, Chartered Architects, Newcastle upon Tyne.

The book was calligraphed by L.V. Evetts and bound by C.M. Cockerell in 1950.

Ownership and Maintenance: St. Gabriel's Church

Inscription:

This book contains the
names of those members
of the Church of St. Gabriel,
Newcastle upon Tyne, who
laid down their lives in
the war of 1939-1945.

Memorial Description:

The book is in a case mounted on a wooden two-legged lectern style stand with glass top, 42 inches high x 24 inches wide x 16 inches deep (1.06m x 608mm x 406mm).

It is placed on a dais in front of the plaque for 1914-18 with two large wooden candlesticks.

Panelling below the 1914-18 memorial is 18 inches high x 55 inches wide (457mm x 1.39m).

A wood frame is below this 34½ inches high x 57 inches wide x 14 inches deep (869mm x 1.44mm x 355mm) with 1914-1918 1939.1945 carved in the top.

The candlesticks are 39½ inches high, base is 11 inches diameter, the top is 8 inches diameter (1.0m x 279mm x 304mm)

The Book of Remembrance is 13 inches high x 10 inches wide (330mm x 254mm).

The pages are hand written.

The dedication page has, at the top, a bishop’s mitre above a shield.

In the inside front cover is a prayer on a highly ornamental page, in blue calligraphy with the first two lines in red.

The names are written on the right hand pages in large black letters, with the regiment written in red underneath each name.

Names:

77 full names and sphere of service
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The Faculty 1742 granted permission: “To provide panelling and a dais in front of and below the existing 1914-18 War Memorial in the North Aisle of the this Church, on which dais would stand a lectern, bearing a Book of Remembrance containing the names of those who fell in the 1939-45 War, flanked by two candlesticks; all wrought in oak”

Sources:

Photos: Philip Thirkell; Tony Harding; James Pasby

Diocese of Newcastle
Faculty No. 1742, 28/08/1950

Research Acknowledgements:

Philip Thirkell;
Tony Harding

Research In Progress:

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Names Documents:

 

   

HEATON, St. Gabriel's Church.

  

   O Eternal Lord God, who

   holdest all souls in life:

   We beseech thee to shed forth upon

   the whole Church in Paradise and on

   earth the bright beams of thy light

   and heavenly comfort; and grant

   that we, following the good examples

   of those who have loved and served

   thee here and are now at rest, may at

   the last enter with them into the ful-

   ness of thine unending joy; through

   Jesus Christ our Lord

   Amen

   

   Their inheritance shall remain forever and their glory shall not be blotted out Amen.

   

   This book contains the

   names of those members

   of the Church of St. Gabriel

   Newcastle upon Tyne who

   laid down their lives in

   the war of 1939-45

   

Page 1

   

          Frederick Aiston

               Royal Air Force

          Leonard Barker

               Royal Air Force

          Joseph William Briggs

               Merchant Navy

          Roy Brown

               Royal Air Force

          Eric Matthew Bulman

               King's Own Scottish Borderers

          Alfred Burcham 

               Royal Navy

          Leonard Arthur Butcher

               Royal Air Force

          Robert Buttery

               Royal Air Force

          Robert Taylor Carr

               Royal Air Force

   

Page 2

   

          Thomas Frank Charlton

               Royal Navy

          Ernest Leslie Coverdale      

               Royal Air Force

          George Cowan    

               Royal Air Force

          George Henry Cowings        

               Royal Air Force

          David Alfred Crockett         

               Royal Artillery

          Robert Daniels    

               Royal Air Force

          William Edward Davidson  

               Air raid casualty

          Harold Dobinson                 

               Merchant Navy

          Alan Duthie                     

               Royal Air Force

   

Page 3

   

          Cyril Milburn Ferguson

               Merchant Navy

          John Foggin 

               Royal Navy

          Eric Gordon Forster  

               Royal Air Force

          Frank Fulford

               Royal Air Force

          Donovan Gibson

               Royal Air Force

          Stanley Godfrey

               Royal Air Force

          Leslie Warren Gospel 

               Royal Air Force

          Frederick Hay 

               Royal Air Force

          Frederick William Hodgson  

               Royal Navy

   

Page 4

   

          John Hogg 

               Royal Navy

          James Holmes

               (4th) Durham Survey Regt: Royal Artillery

          Leslie Holmes 

               Royal Army Service Corps

          Dennis Hope 

               Royal Air Force

          Ronald Hume 

               (7th) Survey Regiment: Royal Artillery 

          Alan Hutton 

               Royal Navy: Fleet Air Arm

          Ronald Colston Ing

               Royal Navy

          Edward Ernest Jay

               Royal Navy

          George Johnson 

               Durham Light Infantry

   

Page 5

   

          Alfred Stanley Kent 

               Royal Artillery

          Cecil Henry King 

               Royal Engineers

          Donald George Kinghorn  

               Merchant Navy

          Frederick Laidler

               Tyneside Scottish

          James Laidler

               Royal Navy

          Frederick Clifford Lott 

               Royal Navy

          Charles Lucas 

               Royal Air Force

          John Lander Mallaburn 

               Lincolnshire Regiment

          Cyril Marr 

               Royal Air Force

   

Page 6

   

          James Noel Maunder

               Royal Navy

          Harry Brodie McGarrow 

               Royal Air Force

          John Gusthart Mein 

               Royal Air Force

          Charles Collingwood Miller 

               Royal Field Artillery

          Rex Mitchell

               Royal Air Force

          Thomas William Money 

               Merchant Navy

          John Morris

               Northumberland Hussars

          Kenneth Murray

               Northumberland Hussars (Royal Artillery)

          Douglas Nockels 

               Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

   

Page 7

   

          John Pattison 

               Royal Air Force

          Harold Pickard 

               Royal Navy

          Alan Pirie 

               Royal Air Force

          David Mathwin Dunlop Potts

               16th Punjab Regiment Indian Army

          George Mathwin Potts

               Royal Artillery Indian Army

          Albert Alexander Richardson

               Royal Air Force

          John Edward Richmond 

               Royal Air Force

          William Forster Riddell 

               Royal Navy

          Tom Riddell Robson

               Merchant Navy

   

Page 8

   

          John Rogers

               Royal Air Force

          Stephen Charles Rood

               Durham Light Infantry

          Merlin Roseby

               Merchant Navy

          Ronald Douglas Scott

               Royal Welch Fusiliers

          James Leslie Shepherd

               The Border Regiment

          George Willis Slone

               Royal Navy

          Thomas Smart 

               Royal Navy: Fleet Air Arm

          James Sydney Spark

               Royal Air Force

          Robert Bruce Walker 

               Royal Air Force

   

Page 9

   

          Robert Cyril Walton

               The Black Watch

          Robert Alan Watson

               Royal Air Force

          Frederick Whiting

               Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

          Oliver S. Williamson

               Royal Navy

          Victor Willis 

               Royal Navy: Fleet Air Arm

          Robert Winship

               Royal Navy

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