Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 Memorial Garden

Milfield

Memorial Name: Plaque 1914-18 Memorial Garden (M9.03)

NEWMP Ref No.: M9.03

Parish: Milfield

Original Location:

Village Centre, Milfield, NE71 6JD

Which War:

1914-18

Inscription:

Above silhouettes:
1914-1918
We will remember them.

On plaque
1914-1918
In memory of the fallen of Milfield.
(Names)
When you go home
tell them of us and say
for your tomorrow
we gave our today.

Memorial Description:

On the wall at the back of the memorial garden is a panel on which the silhouettes of two soldiers are shown.

Above them is a plaque bearing the dedication. There is a poppy in the two lower corners.

Between the silhouettes is a plaque with small raised edge bearing the names of the fallen in raised Roman lower case lettering.

Names:

5 names, ranks, regiments, and other information

See transcript.

Sources:

Photos: Janet Brown

Source of quotation:
 “When you go home . .” Thought to be based on the Greek Simonides who wrote after the Battle of Thermopylae: “Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by / That faithful to their precepts here we lie”.

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

George and Janet Brown

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Names Documents:

 1914-1918

 We will remember them.

 —————————————————

 1914-1918

 In memory of the Fallen of Milfield.

 Pte. George Turnbull

 of the Lothian Light Horse

 Died 13th February 1915 aged 42 years

 Interred Wooler Churchyard

 Pte. James Lee

 of the Royal Marine Artillery

 Died 29th March 1915 aged 20 years

 Interred in Kirknewton Churchyard

 Rifleman Robert How Hunter

 The King’s Royal Rifle Corps

 6/3/1889 – 17/9/1916 aged 27 years

 Listed on the Thiepval Memorial pier and face 13a and 13b Flanders

 2nd Lt. Norman Archbold Hunter RAMC

 and Northumberland Fusiliers

 24/5/1895 – 3/9/1917 aged 23 years

 Interred Hargicourt British Cemetery Aisne France.

 L/Cpl Thomas Nesbit Shell

 of the Morpeth Fusiliers

 Born Ancroft 1885 Died 1st November 1918 aged 23 years

 Interred Kirknewton Church Yard

 When you go home

 tell them of us and say

 for your tomorrow

 we gave our today.

NamesM9.03

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