Memorial

Organ, Plaque 1914-18 Westoe Road Baptist

South Shields

Memorial Name: Organ, Plaque 1914-18 Westoe Road Baptist (S86.073)

NEWMP Ref No.: S86.073

Parish: South Shields

Original Location:

Westoe Road Baptist Church

Present Location:

The organ was destroyed, the plaque was replaced by a more modern one with names from 1939-45 added.

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 31st October 1920 by Lieut.-Quartermaster J.G.G. Francis.

Materials Used:

Bronze on oak pattress.

Inscription:

1914 Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori 1918
In reverent gratitude to GOD for PEACE and VICTORY after the GREAT WAR
of 1914-1918 wherein eighty men from this CHURCH and MISSION took part
and in special remembrance of twelve of them who died giving their lives
for their COUNTRY.
(Names)

Memorial Description:

Organ.

Plaque on light oak pattress.

There is a thin single line raised border.

At the top is a scroll with a wreath at each end bearing the dates “1914” and “1918”. Between them are the words “Dulce et . . .”

The names are below identifying those from Westoe Road and Percy Street churches.

All lettering is in raised Roman upper and lower case with the quotation in italics.

Names:

9 full names from Westoe Road,
3 full names from Percy Street.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. Additional pipes and stops were added to the organ and rededicated in 1936.

Sources:

Photos of plaque: C. Sanders; Peter Hoy

Northern Echo
02/11/1920 reports unveiling of plaque only.

Shields Daily Gazette
01/11/1920 reports unveiling of plaque.

Source of quotation
“Dulce et decorum est . . .” (It is a sweet and noble thing to die for one’s country” Horace, Odes Book 3, No.2, 1.13

Sources Link: Northern Echo 11 02 Tue -1920

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
C. Sanders;
Dorothy Hall;
Michael Mulhern;
Peter Hoy

Research In Progress:

The names on this memorial are being researched by Peter Hoy.

Contact: peterhoy@hotmail.co.uk

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Names Documents:

SOUTH SHIELDS West Road Baptist.

1914 Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori 1918

In reverent gratitude to God for Peace and Victory after the Great War

of 1914-1918 wherein eighty men from this Church and Mission took part

and in special remembrance of twelve of them who died giving their lives

for their Country.

WESTOE ROAD: John Rutherford Alexander . Arthur Irwin Bridge . Richard Cox

Arthur Turner Hislop . George Frederick Allan Jessop . David Mitchell

Robert Penman . Thomas Arthur Penman . Robert Valentine Smith

PERCY STREET: John Rives . Philip Rives . Thomas Tailford

NamesS86.073

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