Notes: 1. Lost in a fire in the 1960s and replaced by a Book of Remembrance M46.20.
2. “This was a wooden tablet and for some reason became so decrepit and worn that it ‘fell to bits’ and was cast out, according to the verger”. (Simon Raine)
3. A message from Sharon Vincent tells us: I gave a talk to Monkwearmouth Local History Group about the war memorial that used to be in St Peter’s Church, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland (M46.22). A member of the audience had this to say: He was born in 1929 and as his mother was a devout member of the congregation, he was taken to the church at every opportunity and could remember the memorial in the years before the Second World War. He said it had a brass border all the way round that must have been 10 inches deep which the churchwardens kept highly polished and it was the bright shine of the metal that he remembers most from his childhood. However, during the metal collections of the Second World War, he believes the brass was removed and sent away for the war effort. Without the brass frame holding the wooden structure together, this may have added to the rapid deterioration of the memorial?
4. The Sunderland Echo 14/02/1920 adds: Two altar frontals have been presented to the church as War Memorials. They have been designed and worked on by the Misses Ray, Stockton Road.
