Memorial

Picture Jaye 1943 Grammar School

Wolsingham

Memorial Name: Picture Jaye 1943 Grammar School (W128.10)

NEWMP Ref No.: W128.10

Parish: Wolsingham

Original Location:

Wolsingham Grammar School.

In School hall, Lower School site.

Present Location:

The school is now called Wolsingham School

Which War:

1939-45

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Dedicated 11th November 1998

Materials Used:

Commercially produced print in wood frame.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

John Larder.

Ownership and Maintenance: Wolsingham School/Durham County Education Committee.

Inscription:

This print was presented to Wolsingham School by John Larder, Aviation Artist,
In memory of a former pupil of Wolsingham Grammar School, Tom Jaye. Tom flew with
the Dambusters and was killed on the raid, and was remembered at the
re-dedication of the Memorial Oaks on Wednesday 11th November 1998.

Memorial Description:

Printed copy of painting of “Operation Chastise”, by John Lander, and autographed by him, behind glass in a narrow plain wood frame.

The dedication is below the picture, with the RAF badge on each side.

Names:

See above.

Notes:

1. This may well have been moved as the picture is not fixed to, or hung on, the wall – it is just leaning against one of the window frames on the north wall of the hall.

2. See his Every Name A Story entry

Sources:

Photo: John and Mavis Dixon