Memorial

Wall 1914-18 1939-45 Falklands Green

Lanchester

Memorial Name: Wall 1914-18 1939-45 Falklands Green (L62.01)

NEWMP Ref No.: L62.01

Parish: Lanchester

Original Location:

Village green

Present Location:

Formerly in a memorial garden facing the Church and the Kings Head.

Turned round when the bypass was built in 1972.

Which War:

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45
c. Falklands 1982

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 11th November 1951 by Rt. Hon Viscount Gort, M.C.
Dedicated by Vicar, Rev. Eric Knowles.

Memorial was re-dedicated on Friday October 19th 2018

Materials Used:

Stone

Inscription:

Lanchester and District
War Memorial
1914-1918 + 1939-1945
In memory of those who gave their lives and as a
Thankoffering for those who returned in safety.

Memorial Description:

Stone wall, total length 12 feet x 18 inches thick (3.6m x 46cms), with raised centre 60 inches high, flanked by lower walls 48 inches high (152cms x122cms) on either side made of narrower stones laid on edge.

The dedication is in a plain inserted panel.

Between the dates of both great wars is a cross.

All lettering is in Roman capitals.

The memorial is approached by a path with flower beds on either side.

2018 – the central panel is 31 inches high x 72 inches wide (79cms x 183cms); the two outside panels are 31 inches high x 53 inches wide (79cms x 135cms).

Names:

a. 102 full names
b. 24 full names
c. Falklands 1 name
d. Death in Service 1 name 1985
See transcript.

Notes:

1. In 2016 County Councillor Ossie Johnson and county Councillor Richard Young decided to use some of their Neighbourhood Budgets to mark the centenary of the WW1 Armistice in 2018 by redeveloping the memorial on the village green to include the names of those who were remembered in the community, not only from the two world wars but also in more recent conflicts. Lanchester Parish Council Working Group including members of the Parish Council, local organisations and members of the community first met in December 2016 to consider designs for the revised memorial and the criteria for the inclusion of names. It was decided to add the full names from the Memorials in Lanchester, Malton and Knitsley plus some others buried in the Churchyard and Cemetery. The Names which had been read out every Remembrance Day from the 1950s included some who had no proven connection to Lanchester in 1914-18, however as the names had been read out for so long all were included.

2. The new Memorial was re-dedicated on Friday October 19th 2018. The three Churches in the Parish led the service. Representatives from the schools and organisations in the Parish were in attendance. The Lord Lieutenant of County Durham, Mrs Sue Snowdon was present.

3. In 2020 Consett British Legion gave the Village a memorial seat – 60 inches long , plaque 2 inches high x 7 inches wide (152cms , 5cms x 18cms).

Sources:

Photos: John and Mavis Dixon; C. Sanders; Errol Broomfield; Ron Carson; James Pasby; Dorothy Hall

Lanchester Remembers – Project Poppy Remembering our Fallen 1918-2018 booklet gives biographical details of the Fallen

Additional Research Documents

L62.01 Unveiling Programme 1951

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L62.01 Rededication 2018

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Research Acknowledgements:

Errol Broomfield;
Ron Carson;
Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
John and Mavis Dixon;
C. Sanders;
Dorothy Hall

Research In Progress:

The names on this memorial have been researched by Ian Murray.

Contact: iwmurray63@gmail.com

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Names Documents:

Lanchester Memorial Garden

  

Panel 1

World War I

 

Column 1                      Column 2

  George Anderson               Marmaduke Featherstonhaugh    

  Thomas Armstrong              William Samuel Featherstonhaugh      

  Margaret Ann Barrow           James Lancelot Ferguson             

  John Robert Bateman           Joseph Martin Fletcher    

  Francis Edgell Bell           Joseph William Foster            

  Walter Bell                   James Foy

  George Young Sadler Blair      Alfred Ernest Gibson              

  Alexander Brankston           Albert John Hampton                 

  Henderson Brankston           Henry Harford Hampton                

  James Brankston               Duke Harrison              

  William Britton               William Harrison                 

  Thomas Rukin Buckham          James Harwood                        

  Albert Bulleyment             John Hassan

  Stephen Cheston               Frederick Hattams             

  Thomas Cheston                Eric Heatherington            

  James Henry Clough            Charles Hill    

  Alexander Coates              James Hodgson                

  Michael Collin                John William Hunter                

  William Costello              Thomas Jackson

  Frederick Coult               William Rosekilly Jarvis

  Sidney Duke                   John Burgoyne Johnson                

  Simpson Dunn                  Luther Vincent Burgoyne Johnson

  James Henry Dunning           Stephen Kelly

  Ernest Fallon                 Paul Aloysius Kenna                 

  Robert Bullerwell Farbridge   George Kirtley

  Thomas Farrey                 Lisle Lathan

  

Column 3                      Column 4

  Vivian Lathan                 John H. Spence

  Michael Lennard               William Spence

  Samuel Whitfield McClay       John Stephenson

  George McDonald               Newton Storey

  Joseph McElhatton             Tom Storey

  Benjamin Mosey                James Herbert Swain

  John Henry Horatio Myers      John Robert Swinbank

  Thomas Willis Nicholson       George Tapp    

  William O’Brien               Joseph Hope Teasdale

  John Pinkerton                Walter Tom Thackwray

  William Thirkell Pratt        Henry Percival Thompson         

  Stephen Ramsay                William Thompson

  John Henry Reynolds           Luke Thornton

  James Richardson              Joseph Tomlinson

  Thomas Robinson               Thomas Henry Turnbull

  William Ross                  Walter Veitch

  Alfred Edward Rowe            Robert Wainwright       

  Gerard Gloag Sadler           John Benson Walker      

  Michael Salmon                George Wardle

  Wilfred Salmon                Thomas Wardle

  Arthur Huntly Sargent         Joseph Warriner       

  John Sargent                  Thomas Whittaker

  Joseph Norman Scott           Isaac Wilson

  Luke William Smith            John Wilson       

  Thomas Henry Smith            

  Harry Spence                   

   

Panel 2

  

World War II

  

  William Blackett              Anthony McGeary

  Thomas Cheston                Donald McMillian  

  Edward Cowan                  Michael O’Brien

  James Dobson                  Robert Reay

  Leo Doran                     John Wardle Scott

  John Martin Finch             Robert Bell Smith

  Richard John Gamlin           Percy Stoker

  George Green                  William Keith Thompson

  John Halpin                   Nathaniel Thornton

  William Charles Hill          Alan Tomlinson

  George William Laykin         John Tomlinson

  Michael Luxmoore              Robert William Tonks

  Vera Mace                     James Stratton Wardle

  

Falklands Campaign 1982

  Stewart Ian Laing

  

  Gavin Peacock- Died in Service 1985

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