Memorial

Plaque 1939-45 United Automobile Services

Darlington

Memorial Name: Plaque 1939-45 United Automobile Services (D40.084)

NEWMP Ref No.: D40.084

Parish: Darlington

Original Location:

United Automobile Services, Head Office at Grange Road (demolished).

Which War:

1939-45

Inscription:

United Automobile Services Ltd.
In honoured memory of employees of this company
who gave their lives in the World War 1939-1945.
“They died that we might live”

Memorial Description:

Plaque 25 inches high x 45 inches wide (64cms x 114cms) set in a narrow wood frame.

The names are listed in two columns divided by a vertical line.

Lettering is in white painted Roman capitals.

Names:

65 names, sphere of service
and the depot where each was based.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The photo shown here is a copy of the original which was in Grange Road, Darlington.
On the bottom frame is a small brass plaque stating “A photograph of / the memorial erected / at Headquarters”.
The original is now at the Arriva North East offices at Boat House Lane, Stockton.

Sources:

Photos: Ian Mather

Source of quotation:
“They died that we might live”. “Hail! and Farewell!” John Oxenham

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Malcolm Richardson (UAS);
Ian Mather

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Names Documents:

DARLINGTON United Automobile Services

 

United Automobile Services Ltd.

 

In honoured memory of employees of this company

who gave their lives in the World War 1939-1945.

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Left hand side

 

  Anderson, Robert         R.E.                   Newcastle        

  Auckland, Joseph A.      R.A.F.                 Redcar           

  Austin, Robert E.        D.L.I.                 Durham           

  Bell, John               R.A.F.                 Durham           

  Bell, Joseph W.          R.A.F.                 Central Works    

  Beswick, James H.        R.A.F.                 Jesmond          

  Bond, Robert             R.A.F.                 Newcastle   

  Bretter, Albert          R.A.F.                 Central Works

  Brown, John W.C.         R.A.S.C.               Newcastle

  Burn, John G.M.          Black Watch            Newcastle

  Cairns, Norman           R.E.M.E.               Newcastle

  Chinn, Edward J.         R.A.F.                 Darlington

  Cole, Harold             R.A.O.C.               Loftus

  Collier, David M.        Royal Scots            Alnwick

  Chillingworth, Victor    R.A.                   West Hartlepool

  Denton, James W.         R.A.F.                 Gallowgate

  Dowsing, William         R.A.S.C.               West Hartlepool

  Drysdale, John D.        R.A.S.C.               Alnwick

  Eddy, Robert             D.L.I.                 Durham

  Egglestone, E. Edward    Green Howards          West Hartlepool

  Ellerker, Harry V.       R.A.F.                 Ripon

  Etherington, Thomas      R.A.S.C.               Central Works

  Fox, Thomas              R.A.F.                 Scarborough

  Fuller, Jack             R.A.F.                 Ashington

  Gales, Edmund            E. Yorks               Middlesbrough

  Gent, Lawrence           R.A.S.C.               Darlington

  Glass, Thomas            R.A.                   Whitley Bay

  Hall, Stanley            Royal Armoured Corps   Bishop Auckland

  Hansell, John J.         R.A.                   Loftus

  Harris, Edmund R.        R.A.S.C.               Jesmond

  Heseltine, Frederick O.  R.A.S.C.               Wooler

  Hetherington, Maurice    Royal Northumb. Fus.   Hexham

  Jewitt, Maurice          Recce. Corps           Newcastle Office

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Right hand side

 

  Johnson, Lawrence W.     Arg.& Suth.Highlanders Alnwick

  Keating, Charles W.      Royal Northumb.Fus.    Gallowgate

  Knight, Ronald.          Royal Armoured Corps   Loftus

  Knox, John E.            D.L.I.                 Newcastle

  Llewellyn, William S.    Border Regiment        Newcastle

  Lovell, James A.         R.N.                   Richmond

  Lowes, George R.         R.A.S.C.               Bishop Auckland

  Marlow, William          R.A.S.C.               Carlisle

  McNally, John            D.L.I.                 Newcastle

  Miles, Harry T.          D.L.I.                 Ashington

  Miller, Henry            R.A.S.C.               West Hartlepool

  Morris, Leslie           R.H.A.                 Carlisle

  Nash, William            R.A.S.C.               Richmond

  Nixon, Frederick H.      C.M.P.                 Rothbury

  Palliser, Ann E.         W.A.A.F.               West Hartlepool

  Parkin, Bert.            Scottish Rifles        Bishop Auckland

  Raine, Frank             R.A.                   Richmond

  Richmond, William H.     D.L.I.                 Bishop Auckland

  Riddell, George          R.A.F.                 Jesmond

  Roberts, Dennis          R.A.S.C.               Scarborough

  Robson, John E.          R.A.F.                 Hexham

  Smith, James             R.A.O.C.               Scarborough

  Stephenson, Joseph R.    Green Howards          Middlesbrough

  Tate, Thomas E.          R.N.                   Head Office

  Thornton, John           Green Howards          Ripon

  Tiplady, William         R.A.F.                 Newcastle

  Wains, Francis H.        R.A.F.                 Durham

  Wake, John W.            R.A.S.C.               Durham

  Watson, Sydney           King’s Reg.            Ashington

  Wheatley, William A.     R.N.                   Redcar

  Williamson, Albert B.    Royal Northumb. Fus.   Berwick

  Worrall, Arthur          R.N.                   Darlington.

 

   “They died that we might live”

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