Memorial

Book of Remembrance 1914-18 1939-45 St. Oswald

Walker

Memorial Name: Book of Remembrance 1914-18 1939-45 St. Oswald (W2.08)

NEWMP Ref No.: W2.08

Parish: Walker

Original Location:

St Oswalds, Woodhead Rd, Walkergate, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE6 4RX. NZ 28544 65644

Which War:

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

22nd January 1956

Materials Used:

?Paper
Leather cover

Who Commissioned:

Parishioners

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Written and Illuminated by John Henshall.

Inscription:

On flyleaf

St. Oswald
+
Walkergate

Book of
Remembrance
————–
Page 2
A
memorial
to those from this Parish
who made the Supreme Sacrifice
in the wars
1914-18
1939-46
Presented
by fellow parishioners
22nd January 1956
————–
Page 3
They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun,
and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Memorial Description:

Book of Remembrance in glass case.

It has a leather cover tooled in gold.

The fly leaf has a St. Oswald’s Cross.

All lettering is calligraphed in black letters with some red lettering to some words and red initials to the surnames.

Names:

117 full names.
See transcript.

Sources:

Photos: Friend of Joan Jobling; Tony Harding

Source of quotation:
“They shall grow not old . . . .” For the Fallen Lawrence Binyon.

Research Acknowledgements:

Friend of Joan Jobling;
Tony Harding

Research In Progress:

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Names Documents:

WALKER St. Oswald’s Church

 

  [Cover]

  St. Oswald

  Walkergate

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  St. Oswald

   [St. Cuthbert’s Pectoral Cross]

  Walkergate

  Book of

  Remembrance

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  A

  Memorial

  to those from this Parish

  who made the Supreme Sacrifice

  in the Wars

  1914-18

  1939-46.

   [Maltese Cross]

  Presented

  by fellow parishioners,

  22nd January, 1956.

—————————————————————

  They shall grow not old,

      as we that are left grow old;

  Age shall not weary them,

      nor the years condemn.

  At the going down of the sun,

      and in the morning,

  We will remember them.

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  Adamson, John Faulds         Carlile, Thomas

  Armistead, A.M.              Carr, James Chandler

  Armstrong, James             Carty, John James

  Atkinson, Alfred Stanley     Cockburn, Frederick

  Atkinson, John James         Collins, G.

                               Coombs, Herbert George

  Barry, James                 Cosgrave, Thomas

  Barry, Patrick               Craig, James

  Bell, Stewart                Crighton, J.

  Bennett, John Thomas         Cummings, James

  Berry, Edward                Curry, Robert Dowson

  Bilsland, Harold William

  Bird, Henry James            Delaney, Thomas

  Birtley, James               Dobinson, John Robert

  Bowman, Sidney Miller        Dowling, William

  Brown, John Ruck             Drake, Norman Richard

  Brown, Leslie

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  Elliott, Leslie              Hagan, Albert

                               Hall, James Wesley

  Fairlamb, Robert Whyman      Harrison, Raine

  Farqhar, William             Heppell, Albert Edmund

  Fay, Timothy                 Hindmarch, James

  Findlay, George Edward       Hopkins, Edward

  Fitzpatrick, Sarah Agnes     Hornsby, Charles

  Fletcher, Frank              Howard, Anthony Ryott G.

  Floody, Thomas Henry

  Forster, Thomas Lang         Jackson, John

  Frew, Ernest                 Jobey, Stanley

                               Jobe, Thomas

  Gallagher, Anthony           Johns, Robert George

  Gibson, J.B.                 

  Greenwell, Henry James       Knox, Joseph

  Guy, William McVey

                            Laing, Geoffrey

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  Lally, Michael               Mullarkey, John

  Lamb, Edward                 Musham, George

  Lamb, George Douglas         

  Leach, George James          Naylor, Robert

  Leach, Robert                

  Lejeune, J.                  Parkins, James

  Luke, John Norman            Patton, Neville James

  Lynn, John George            Peterson, Victor Arthur

                               Pinchard, John

  Mallen, James Patrick        Poole, James Douglas

  Maloy, John Joseph           Proctor, Norman

  Marley, George Percival      

  McCarron, George Andrew      Reed, J.W.

  McDonald, James              Roberts, Thomas

  Monaghan, James              Robson, Thomas

  Mooney, John                 Rutherford, Philip

  Morrison, Albert Lowry

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  Saint, John                  Varty, George

  Saint, Ralph

  Salkeld, George              Walker, William

  Sambidge, John Bennett       Ward, Bernard

  Simpson, George              Watt, James Kennedy

  Simpson, Thomas              Weallends, Alfred

  Shotton, John George         Wilson, William

  Spence, Samuel George S.     Wood, Frederick John

  Steele, William James

  Stewart, James               Young, Robert Oswald

  Stoddart, Norman William     Young, W.L.

  Swinbank, Robert Mathias

                               Constantine, Robert

  Taylor, John Burns           Hazen, William Edward

  Thompson, Claude             Moss, Joseph Jesse

  Thompson, William            Written and illuminated by John Henshall

  Tonks, Jean

  Gowing, George Raymond De Garis

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There are some of errors on these names:

  Farqhar, William should be Farquhar, William

  Maloy, John Joseph should be Molloy, John Joseph

  Peterson, Victor Arthur should be Petersen, Victor Arthur

  Sambidge, John Bennett should be Sambridge, John Bennett

  Weallends, Alfred should be Wealands, Alfred

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