Memorial Details
Memorial
Roll of Honour Served 1914-18 Watergate Wesleyan Methodist
Reference
C113.05
Place
CASTLESIDE
Original Location
Watergate Wesleyan Methodist Church.
Present Location
Beamish Museum.
Which war
1914-18
Memorial Description
Roll of Honour, preprinted, 28½ x 18½ wide, highly illuminated, set in a frame 37 inches high x 27½ inches wide. At centre top is the Royal insignia on a Union flag. To left and right are wreaths containing badges and set against crossed flags. Down each side is a border containing daffodils for Wales, shamrocks for Ulster, thistles for Scotland and roses for England, with a seated lion at the bottom. At centre bottom is a cartouche containing the dedication. The names are in two columns. These and the dedication are handwritten.
Materials used
Paper
Inscription
A memento / of young men / of this Church and Sunday / School who at the call of / duty rendered service for / King and Country in the / Army and Navy in the / World War 1914-1918
Names
Sculptor, Artist or Designer
Printed by John F. Shaw & Co,., London. Framed by Co-operative Wholsesale Dept.
Notes
1. Watergate Wesleyan Methodist Church closed in 1970. The memorial was moved to Consett Road Primitive Methodist Church at Castleside which closed in the 1990s. It is now in North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: Dorothy Hall
North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish Ref: 1993-163.2. Neg. No. 46609
North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish Ref: 1993-163.2. Neg. No. 46609
External web link
Research acknowledgements
Dorothy Hall; North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish
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Roll of Honour Served 1914-18 Watergate Wesleyan Methodist (C113.05)
Roll of Honour
Jacob Pattinson John Allan Stephenson
Ernest Proud William Harrison Thompson
John George Raine Thomas Percy Davison
Robert Croft John Allen Hull
Thomas Colling Robert Davison
Robert Wilson Thompson John Adamson
John Watson Joseph William Peirson
Thomas Walton Lee Frank Leithead
George Robson Willers Robley Strong
Alfred Philipson George Strong
Harland Philipson
Aaron Peirson
Alfred Foster
Edward Blythman Hull
Robert Jewitt
Peter Downie
Thomas Edwin Hull
John Curry
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A memento
of young men
of this Church and Sunday
School who at the call of
duty rendered service for
King and Country in the
Army and Navy in the
World War 1914-1918
NamesC113.05
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