Memorial

Plaque 1939-45 St. Gabriel

Sunderland

Memorial Name: Plaque 1939-45 St. Gabriel (S140.012)

NEWMP Ref No.: S140.012

Parish: Sunderland

Original Location:

St. Gabriel’s Church, Chester Road / Kayll Road, Bishopwearmouth.

Which War:

1939-45

Materials Used:

Wood

Inscription:

Roll of Honour
1939 -1945
They were a wall unto us
both by night and day.

Memorial Description:

Plaque in wood.

The frame has twisted columns at each side and a decoration above the pediment.

The names are carried in two columns on the central panel, the lettering incised using serif capitals throughout.

More names have been added onto the base.

Names:

76 full names.
See transcript.

Sources:

Photos: C. Sanders; Roland Riddell; James Pasby

The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)’
Ref. EP/Biw.SG 4/20-28 Photographic views of the nave, altar, font, war memorial, etc., 1930s – 1980s
(8 photographs, 1 file)
Ref No. EP/Biw.SG 6/8
Order of service for the dedication of the war memorial, of the book of service and of the holy communion rails in the south transept morning chapel, by Rev. G.E. Holderness, vicar of St. Cuthbert, Darlington, 3 December 1950 (1 paper)

Source of quotation
“They were a wall unto us . . .” 1 Samuel 25 v 15-16

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

C. Sanders;
Roland Riddell;
James Pasby

Research In Progress:

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Names Documents:

SUNDERLAND St. Gabriel’s Church

Roll of Honour

1939-1945

Ronald G. Agar George Milbanke

James H. Anderson Norman Maughan

Thomas Bolton Alan Pattison

John Broomfield Eric Pattison

Charles E. Brown Gordon Petrie

Reginald Brown Alan Phillips

Gordon Burlison Leslie Plummer

Alfred Burnham Robert Powley

Norman Chadwick Gordon Raine

John Clark William T. Raine

Robert H. Clark Arthur Ramshaw

William J. Coward Arthur Riddell

Robert Crombie Betty Riddell

Joseph Curle Robert Robinson

Alfred Dale Arthur Ross

Stanley A.Dunn John Rowntree

John W. Ferguson William Scholfield

Hilda Foster Kenneth Scott

Ernest Gibson David Shaw

Thomas Gould Alan R. Sherriff

Thomas A. Grey Norman Stanger

Ernest H. Halliday Douglas H. Summers

Leslie Hamilton Lawrence Tait

Maurice S. Harrison Charles F. Thompson Snr.

Robert B. Hudson Charles Thompson Jnr.

Brian Hunter Thomas W. Tuddenham

Joseph H. Kennedy John M. Turnbull

William D. Kirk Norman D. Taylor

John J. Mason Charles Watson

Kenneth McAllister Launcelot O. Wells

Adam McNaughton Sydney Wells

Lawrence Mellentin William Westerby

Gordon Metcalf Wilfred S. White

John C. Metcalf Edward J.S. Willey

William Metcalf Sydney Young.

“They were a wall unto us

both by night and day”.

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On slope

Gordon Downs George A. Peace

Benjamin L. Newton Cyril Pinkney

NamesS140.12

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