Memorial Details
Memorial
Triptych 1914-18
Reference
S28.07
Place
SHOTLEY LOW QUARTER
Original Location
Shotley probably St. John's Church
Present Location
Beamish -The North of England Open Air Museum
Which war
1914-18
Memorial Description
Triptych.
A metal cross fills the whole of the back inner panel. The words “For God, King and Country” are in the gable top. The quotation is on either side of the head of the cross, painted in gilded block letters.
The names are listed in a single column underneath the arms of the cross.
A metal cross fills the whole of the back inner panel. The words “For God, King and Country” are in the gable top. The quotation is on either side of the head of the cross, painted in gilded block letters.
The names are listed in a single column underneath the arms of the cross.
Materials used
HMS Britannia's timber and copper.
Inscription
For God, King and Country.
Greater / love hath / no man / than this.
The Heroic Dead.
Roll of Honour Made from timber
removed from
HMS Britannia
Cadet Training ship at
Dartmouth
1869-1905
Greater / love hath / no man / than this.
The Heroic Dead.
Roll of Honour Made from timber
removed from
HMS Britannia
Cadet Training ship at
Dartmouth
1869-1905
Names
Notes
1. This is typical of a type of memorial made from timber and copper taken from H.M.S. 'Britannia' Naval Cadet Ship at Dartmouth 1869-1905. Broken up at Blyth 1917.
In a booklet presented by Hughes Bolckow to their staff when the firm was taken over in 1961, there is a long piece about the break-up of the "Britannia". The salvaged material went to making up all kinds of things (see font made from binnacle at Blyth B42.09). A sentence reads "Folding chairs on offer were designed with wounded soldiers in mind ('their high back is very restful, but does not interfere with the hat when seated'); tea trolleys were advertised ('in hospitals and nursing homes they ease the extra work brought by the war'); and there were three patterns of memorial shrine with space for names of up to 150 dead; the names could be added 'in black at a halfpenny a letter, or in gold at a penny a letter'". See E60.01, B42.01, B42.02 and C6.05
2. This was found by John Gall at Shotley Bridge.
3. 2017 Dave Wright is researching the names of those who served in WW1 and confirms that all these names are on his Shotley Low Quarter list.
In a booklet presented by Hughes Bolckow to their staff when the firm was taken over in 1961, there is a long piece about the break-up of the "Britannia". The salvaged material went to making up all kinds of things (see font made from binnacle at Blyth B42.09). A sentence reads "Folding chairs on offer were designed with wounded soldiers in mind ('their high back is very restful, but does not interfere with the hat when seated'); tea trolleys were advertised ('in hospitals and nursing homes they ease the extra work brought by the war'); and there were three patterns of memorial shrine with space for names of up to 150 dead; the names could be added 'in black at a halfpenny a letter, or in gold at a penny a letter'". See E60.01, B42.01, B42.02 and C6.05
2. This was found by John Gall at Shotley Bridge.
3. 2017 Dave Wright is researching the names of those who served in WW1 and confirms that all these names are on his Shotley Low Quarter list.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: John and Mavis Dixon; James Pasby
Source of quotation:
"Greater love hath no man . . ." St. John's Gospel 15 v 13
Source of quotation:
"Greater love hath no man . . ." St. John's Gospel 15 v 13
Research acknowledgements
John and Mavis Dixon; John Gall; Dave Wright
Research In Progress
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Triptych 1914-18 (S28.07)
SHOTLEY
For,
God, King and Country.
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Greater love hath
no man than this.
Roll Roll
Of Honour of Honour
Anderson John Rowell, Arthur Edward
Anderson Thomas Nicholson George Edward
Dixon Alfred Ditchburn Robert
Oley Nicholas *Liddle Thomas
Oliver Charles *Dixon Henry
Oliver Dickinson Sanderson Benjamin
Oliver William Beighey Elsdon Robert
Pattinson William Arnison Thomas
Potts Ernest John Golightly Albert
Robertson Robert Stafford George
Stephenson Jasper Harding Christopher
Stephenson John Milburn John
*Storey Thomas William *Storey John William
Blundell John *Trott John
Heslop Walter Weir Thomas
*Pattinson George Brunskill Henry
Short Arthur Fairless Walter
Swinburne Charles Bean Frederick James
Potts Cecil Chapman Ridley Thomas
Harding John Oliver John
Harding Robert *Creighton John
Ridley William Ridley Robert
Swinburne Frederick Lovat Richard
Kitchen B. Allan Fairless Henry
Waugh Nicholas Hedley Sidney
Bell Alfred
Arnison George
*The Heroic Dead.
NamesS28.07
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