Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary

Whitburn

Memorial Name: Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary (W100.03)

NEWMP Ref No.: W100.03

Parish: Whitburn

Original Location:

St. Mary’s Parish Church, Church Lane.

On the north wall.

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 2nd January 1921 by Mr. Sewell;
dedicated by the Bishop of Durham.

Materials Used:

Red marble.

Inscription:

To
the Glory of God and
sacred to the memory of
those forty seven men of
Whitburn who gave their
lives for their country in
the Great European War
A.D. 1914-1919.
These are they who
for God and their Country
jeoparded their lives unto
the death. Therefore they
shall be Mine, saith the Lord
of Hosts, in that day when
I make up my jewels.

Memorial Description:

Plaque 60 inches high x 72 inches wide (152cm x 196cm) carved into three panels.

The centre part is taller than the two sides.

At centre top is a cross in a roundel.

Below, the panel is sunken with a shallow rounded top.

This panel bears the dedication incised using elaborate upper and lower case lettering.

The outer parts have sunken panels bearing the names in a single column on each in Roman capitals.

Names:

47 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. Mr. Sewell performed the unveiling in place of Mr. Hedworth Williamson.

2. “We returned to Whitburn (from Cleadon) and at 3 p.m. dedicated a war memorial tablet in the church & gave an address. Sir Hedworth Williamson who was to have unveiled the tablet failed to appear but arrived after everything was over at tea at the Rectory”. (Bishop Henson’s diary 02/01/1921).

3. The Parish Church, variously dedicated to St.Mary and also to St.Andrew, now has no dedication.

Sources:

Photos: Simon Raine; C. Sanders

Sunderland Daily Echo
03/01/1921 reports unveiling.
(Available on The British Newspaper Archive)

Sources of quotations
Old Testament composite of Judges 5 v 18 “These are they who . . .” and Malachi 3 v 17 “Therefore they shall be mine . . .”

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
C. Sanders;
Dorothy Hall;
James Pasby

Research In Progress:

The names for 1914-18 are being researched by the Whitburn Local History Society including Christine Buckham

Contact:  Mrs. Christine Buckham, 52 Wheatall Drive, Whitburn, Nr. Sunderland, SR6 7HQ. 0191 5293007

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Names Documents:

WHITBURN      St. Mary’s Church

    

 Richard Abbot                                                  Norman Laverick

 Henry James Noel Palmer Allison                                Thomas Linford

 John Asselbrough                To                             James Miller

 Robert Barff                    the Glory of God and           Robert William Mustard

 Ernest Jordan Barkess           sacred to the memory of        Robert Oliver

 Robert Humphrey Bruce           those forty seven men of       George Patterson

 Arthur William Buzzard          Whitburn who gave their        Tom Henry Sparvell Raine

 Thomas Buzzard                  lives for their country in     Leonard Ranson

 William Chamberlain             the Great European War         William Tait Sewell

 David Dobson                    A.D. 1914-1919.                Alan Shipley

 Daniel Donaldson                These are they who             Joseph Edward Smith

 Frederick Elliott M.M.          for God and their Country      Jacob Talbot Stenton

 Robert Emmerson                 jeoparded their lives unto     James Stenton

 Frederick Joseph Forster        the death.  Therefore they     Thomas Patterson Stenton

 Robert Gibson                   shall be Mine, saith the Lord  Robert Sweeting

 Christopher George Grimwood     of Hosts, in that day when     William Sweeting

 George William Hall             I make up my jewels.           William Tighe

 Robert Harper                                                  Thomas Wallace

 Robert Hogg                                                    Alexander Whyte

 Cuthbert Ralph Hutchinson                                      John Payne Wight

 Arthur Jackson                                                 Adolphus Hudleston Williamson CMG

 William Jackson                                                Charles Grunwell Young

 Robert Percy Kellett                                           Hammet Young

 Robert Lamb      

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