Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary the Virgin

Norton on Tees

Memorial Name: Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary the Virgin (N68.02)

NEWMP Ref No.: N68.02

Parish: Norton on Tees

Original Location:

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, The Collegiate, Norton Green.

Which War:

1914-18

Materials Used:

Hoptonwood Stone

How Money was Raised:

Public subscription

Inscription:

Roll of Honour of the men of Norton
who fell in the Great War 1914-1919
(Names)
Their name liveth for evermore.

Memorial Description:

Plaque 64 inches high x 89 inches wide (163cms x 226cms).

There is a wide moulded border which contains the dedication at the top, the dates down the sides and the quotation along the bottom in raised Roman capitals.

The main panel is subdivided into three, each bearing names in a single column using black Roman capitals with some red.

Three further names have been added between the panels and the border at the bottom.

Names:

90 names.
See transcript.

External Links:

Men who served with the Yorkshire Regiment by Edward Nichol

Sources:

Photo: C. Sanders; Dorothy Hall

Darlington and Stockton Times
 28/02/1920 reports proposals;
05/02/1921 reports unveiling.

Northern Echo
26/02/1920 reports proposals

Diocese of Durham
Faculty 940, issued 15/07/1920

Source of quotation
 “Their name liveth for evermore” Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 44

Sources Link: Northern Echo 1920 02 26 Thu

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
C. Sanders,
John and Mavis Dixon;
Dorothy Hall;
Yorkshire Regiment Remembrance

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Names Documents:

NORTON  St. Mary’s Church

 

 

  The Roll of Honour of the Men of Norton

  who fell in the Great War

 

  Thomas Allinson       Thomas Percival Guthe Walter Redding  

  James Frank Atkinson  Robert Hall           George W. Ridley  

  Richard Atkinson      Richard Harrison      Albert V. Robinson

  William Beeton        George Norman Hedley  Benjamin Carr Robson     

  Wilfred M. Booth      John Joseph Humble    James Russell    

  Robert Henry Brand    Herbert Jefferies     Francis S. Scott         

  James Cartmell Brown  John Edward Johnson   Harry Sharman  

  John William Brown    George Kidd           Jabez William Sharp

  Norman A. Burnett     John William Kidd     Bert H. Silversides

  William T. Chesworth  Mark Kirby            John Robert Skelton

  Harrison T.Crosby     Thomas Gordon Kirby   William Smart

  A.B. Lifford Crosby   Joseph Henry Kirk     Albert Edward Smith

  Timothy H.S. Crosby   Johnson Lax           Alfred G.H. Smith

  Edward Cross          John A. Littlefair    Walter Victor Smith

  George Oliver Cross   Arthur Lonsdale       Fred Snaith

  Ernest William Cryer  John William Lowes    Andrew Snowdon

  Robert Cubley         Alexander McInteer    George Blair Snowdon

  Arthur C. Cussons     George R. McKenzie    John W. Southall

  William Davies        Rupert Moore          William Taylor

  William Denton        Percival W. Murray    Arthur Thorpe

  Harry C. Dickinson    William Orr           Sidney C. Tingle

  Frederick T. Dietz    Charles H. Osborne    Frederick O. Trechmann

  Donald Stuart Donkin  Harold Pearson        Charles S. Vane-Tempest

  John Norman Dowse     Alfred Pearson        Andrew Ventress

  Francis Inwood Dring  Bertie H. Phillips    Benjamin E. Walker

  Alexander English     Harold Pickard        Robert Hunton Walton

  John Edward English   Thomas A. Pierson     George Wilkinson

  John Rowe Fewster     George C. Porter      John T. Wilkinson

  Edward Fletcher       Thomas Proud          Harold A. Winspear

  Ernest W. Forster     John Ramsey           William A. Wright

In border

  William H. Bain       Horace D.R. Kirby     Ronald A. Temperton

 

  Their name liveth for evermore

NamesN68.02

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