Plaque 1939-45 Suez 1956 Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity Church 55 Front Street TS28 5LW

a. 1939-45
b. Suez 1956

Brass

In memory of those who fell
in the cause of freedom
World War
1939-1945
(Names)
Thanks be to God.

Plaque, very plain, 45 inches high x 35 inches wide (114cms x 89cms) set in a very plain slender frame.

The names are listed in two columns in Roman capitals.

1. The Faculty was given for, inter alia, the addition of the name of a parishioner to the War Memorial 1939-1945 tablet. The addition is in respect of a 1956 Suez casualty. Engraving to be done by J. McGregor of West Hartlepool. Casualty was Lorin Dudhill, Port Said November 1956.

Photo: C. Sanders

Diocese of Durham
Faculty number 4090, issued 31/12/1958

The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)
Wilson Hays (architect) Wingate Holy Trinity
Ref: D/WH 1 299/1 Correspondence re memorial clock, tablet, seats, garden and tower at Wingate, 6 October 1947 – 8 May 1957
(1 file)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/2 Plans of proposed war memorial clock at Holy Trinity Church, Wingate, October 1951 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48] (1 plan, 66cm x 41cm, duplicated coloured)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/3 Plans of proposed war memorial clock at Holy Trinity Church, Wingate, December 1952 Scale: 4 feet to 1 inch [1:48] (1 plan, 66cm x 41cm, duplicated, partly coloured)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/4 Specification of work to be done in the installation of a war memorial clock at Holy Trinity Church, January 1953 (1 file)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/5 Plans of proposed memorial garden, Wingate, with planning approval form, October 1955 – 9 January 1956
Scale: 8 feet to 1 inch [2:96] (1 plan, 38cm x 34cm, duplicated, partly coloured)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/6 Site plan of memorial garden showing surrounding buildings, n.d. No scale (1 plan, 74cm x 57cm, tracing paper, pencil)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/7 Details of garden of remembrance, n.d. (1 plan, 57cm x 17cm, ink, tracing paper)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/8 Elevations and sections of war memorial and clock tower, plan of memorial garden, n.d. Scales: 1 foot to ½ inch [1:24] and 1 foot to 1/8 inch [1:96] (1 plan, 103cm x 76cm, pencil, coloured)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/9 Details of plaque dedicating the church clock at Wingate to ‘the memory of those killed in two World Wars’,
n.d. Scale: full size (1 plan, 79cm x 55cm, duplicated)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/10 Details of bronze wreath to proposed war memorial, n.d. No scale (1 plan, 32cm x 47cm, duplicated)
Ref: D/WH 1/299/11 Plan of bronze wreath to proposed war memorial clock at Holy Trinity Church, Wingate, n.d. Scale: 1:8
(1 plan, 28.5cm x 32cm, pencil, coloured, tracing paper)

The Monumental Brasses of County Durham William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore 2002 ISBN 095 4327101

In Search of Tom George Rodgers; 2008; Cormorant Publishing, Hartlepool; ISBN 978 0 9558593 1 1, tells the story of Thomas Rodgers, 2nd Battalion DLI, killed in action at St Venant on 27th May 1940, and his family’s search for his actual resting place.

C. Sanders;
John and Mavis Dixon;
Dorothy Hall

If you are researching this memorial please contact 2014@newmp.org.uk