Memorial

Book of Remembrance 1939-45 All Saints

Monkwearmouth

Memorial Name: Book of Remembrance 1939-45 All Saints (M46.06)

NEWMP Ref No.: M46.06

Parish: Monkwearmouth

Original Location:

All Saints’ Church, Fulwell Road. SR6 0JD

Which War:

1939-45

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled and dedicated 2nd August 1949 by Very Rev. C.A. Alington, Dean of Durham.

Materials Used:

Oak case.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Mr. A. Ray, A.R.C.A., Principal of Sunderland Art College.

Inscription:

On cover:
In
Memoriam
1939-1945

On fly leaf :
A Book of Remembrance
of all those members of this
parish and congregation who
made the supreme sacrifice in
the World War September 1939
to August 1945

“Greater love hath no man than
this that a man lay down his
life for his friends”
1939 – 1945

Memorial Description:

Book of Remembrance.

Cover is 13 inches high x 10 inches wide (330mm x 254mm) in blue leather, with tooled work in gold.

At centre top is a cross with a badge on each side.

Below this are the words “In memoriam” and the dates.

There are 14 pages 12 inches high x 9 inches wide (304mm x 226mm), spring bound, a page for each month of the year, each page having a wide heavily illuminated border, and the name of the month in gold at the top.

The names are handwritten in order of date of death.

The book is displayed in an oak glass topped case 24 inches wide x 16 inches deep (608mm x 454mm).

Names:

Names, dates of death and sphere of service.
See transcript.

Sources:

Photos: C. Sanders; Simon Raine: James Pasby

Diocese of Durham
Faculty 3147, issued 02/12/1948

The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)
Ref: EP/Mo.AS 68 Faculty for the replacement of the font and to introduce a Book of Remembrance, 2 December 1948 (1 paper, t script, embossed seal)
Ref: EP/Mo.AS 127 List of those who served 1939-45

More Monkwearmouth Memories
Book No. 4 April 1994

Source of quotation:
“Greater love hath no man . . .” St. John 15 v 13

Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
John and Mavis Dixon,
C. Sanders;
Alan Vickers;
James Pasby

Research In Progress:

If you are researching this memorial please contact 2014@newmp.org.uk

If you know more about this memorial, please send the details to NEWMP.

Names Documents:

 

   

MONKWEARMOUTH   All Saints’ Church

  
Cover

   

   In

   Memoriam 

   1939-1945

   

Dedication
   

   A Book of Remembrance 

   of all those members of this 

   parish and congregation who 

   made the supreme sacrifice in 

   the World War September 1939 

   to August 1945
   

   "Greater love hath no man than 

   this, that a man lay down his 

   life for his friends" 

   1939 – 1945

   

Page 1
   

   JANUARY 

   1940

       Albert Edward Rowell         M.N. 
   

   1942

   17  George Mason                 M.N. 
   

   1945

   5   William Percy Scott          R.A.F. 

   6   Norman McLeod Cooper         Army 

   

Page 2
 

   FEBRUARY

   1941

   5   John Cadman                  R.A.F.

   21  William Henry Smith          —-
   

   1942

   11  Anthony Cutter               Army

   12  John Kinnair                 R.A.F.

   14  John Edward Hunter           Army

   15  Edith Mary Wilson            T.A.N.S.

   19  Maurice Dixon                Army

   
   1945
   2   Walter Dickens               Army

      

Page 3
   

   MARCH 

   1941 

   14  Rosemarie Pennell            A.R.V.

   14  Sarah Alice Pearson Pennell  A.R.V

   14  Lewis Viner                  A.R.V
   

   1942

   15  Joseph Alfred Falcus         Army

   25  John Heslop                  M.N.
   

   1943

   2   Robert Kirby Hall            R.A.F.

   23  James Watson Mitchinson      Army
   

   1944

   4   Leslie Wilson                Army

   30  Leslie Simpson               R.A.F.
   

   1945

   4   James Thompson               R.A.F.

   13  Leslie Mathsell Ranee        M.N.

   21  Henry Scurr Johnson          R.A.F.

   24  Kenneth Thornborrow          Army

    

Page 4
   

   APRIL

   1943

   23  Henry Robert Bell            Army

      

Page 5
   

   MAY 

   1940

   20  James William Rigby          Army 

   21  John Edward Hutchinson       Army 

   26  Robert William Storey        Army 
   

   1941

   4   Louise Flett                 A.R.V. 

   4   Frederick William Forster    A.R.V. 

   4   Margaret Forster             A.R.V. 

   4   Anne Harvey                  A.R.V. 

   4   Mary Hannah Harvey           A.R.V. 

   4   Elizabeth Moore              A.R.V. 

   4   Margaret Moore               A.R.V. 

   4   Alice J. Spanton             A.R.V. 

   4   Anthony Robinson Storey      A.R.V. 

   4   Audrey Storey                A.R.V. 

   4   Edith Storey                 A.R.V. 

   4   Edith Marion Storey          A.R.V. 

   4   James Campbell Turnbull      A.R.V. 

   4   Joan Turnbull                A.R.V. 

   4   Margaret Elsie Turnbull      A.R.V. 

   4   Maurice Turnbull             A.R.V. 

    

Page 6
   

   MAY

   1941

   4   Mary Usher                   A.R.V. 

   7   Raymond Allan                Army
   

   1942

   10  John George Fincham          Army

   18  George Walker Thornton       R.A.F.
   

   1943

     George McKenzie Wilson       M.N.

   15  George Dodds Reeves          Army

   16  Florence Amelia Evans        A.R.V. 

   16  June Evans                   A.R.V. 

   16  Samuel Johnson               A.R.V. 

   16  William Henry Kennard        A.R.V. 

   16  George Herbert Peel R.N.     A.R.V. 

   16  Walter Phillips              A.R.V. 

   16  Lilian Sinclair              A.R.V. 

   16  Lancelot Cummings Slawther   A.R.V. 

   16  Emma Warne                   A.R.V. 

   16  Watts Daniel Warne           A.R.V. 

   23  Meggie Hedley Chell          A.R.V. 

   23  Alice Hedley Phillips        A.R.V. 

   30  Joseph Frederick Cooper      R.N.

    

Page 7
   

   JUNE 

   1940

   9   Bartholomew Hutchinson       Army 

   24  Douglas Storey               R.N.
   

   1941

   3   Norman Warne                 R.N. 
   

   1943

   25  George Liddle                R.A.F. 
   

   1944

   2   Louis Bryan Armstrong        R.N.

   14  George William Clear         R.A.F.

   24  John Charlton                R.A.F.

     

Page 8
   

   JULY

   1941

   9   Alan Sanderson               M.N.
   

   1942

     James Wetherall Carr         Army
   

   1943

   23  Stephen Hodge Carter         R.A.F.
   

   1944

   3   George Cook                  Army

   

Page 9
   

   AUGUST 

   1940

   15  John Sanderson Henderson     A.R.V. 

   25  Rowland Dixon                M.N. 
   

   1944

   3   Anthony Humphrey             Army 

   21  Leslie Mason                 R.N. 

     

Page 10
   

   SEPTEMBER

   1939

   17  John George Dixon            R.A.F.
   

   1942

     Reuben Ball                  M.N.

   12  James William Kent           R.A.F.

   15  William Douglass             M.N.
   

   1943

   19  Thomas Andrew Askew          Army

   23  Fredrick Stobart             Army
   

   1944

   10  John William Kitchen         Army

   12  Leslie Blakeman              Army

   

Page 11
   

   OCTOBER 

   1940

   15  Cyril Cain                   M.N. 

   19  William Henry Frazer         M.N. 
   

   1941

   15  Victor Dodds                 M.N. 
   

   1943

   25  William Brown Robson         Army 
   

   1944

   8   William Elliott              Army 

   22  Robert Brown                 Army 

   26  Frederick George Swan        Army 

   

Page 12
   

   NOVEMBER

   1939

   23  John Robe                    M.N.
   

   1941

   7   John Barras                  A.R.V. 

   7   Joseph Gowland               A.R.V. 

   25  Alfred Kennedy               R.N.
   

   1942

   14  Robert Leng                  Army

   20  Joseph William Heslop        M.N.

   24  Alfred William Marjoram      Army

   25  Walter Robe                  M.N.

   27  Alfred Pallas Scott          R.A.F.
   

   1943

   13  Robert Storey Bivans         Army

    

Page 13
   

   DECEMBER 

   1939

   12  Austin Clyde Donaldson       R.N. 
   

   1940

   2   David Miller                 M.N. 

   12  James Watson                 Army 

   15  Edward Dugan                 M.N. 
   

   1941

   23  William Lumsden              Army 
   

   1943

   20  John Bernard O’Brien         R.A.F.

   23  John Henry Abernethy         R.N.
   

   1944

   7   Albert Wotton                R.A.F.

   31  Doreen Clark                 A.T.S.

  

Page 14
   

   AS A RESULT OF WAR

   Henry Crooks             Army    30.12.45

   Alfred Hall              Army    25.10.46

   Robert Watt              M.N.    22.1.47

   Henry French             M.N.    3.6.47

   George Duck Peel         A.R.V.  17.5.48

   Joseph Rowell Humphrey   R.N.    25.6.48

   Christopher Blair        R.A.F.  24.2.49

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