Memorial Details
Memorial
Plaque 1914-18 Tweedmouth Co-operative Society
Reference
B25.29
Place
BERWICK ON TWEED
Map ref
NT 999528
Original Location
Entrance lobby Tweedmouth Co-operative Society's Store Main Street Tweedmouth.
Present Location
Later moved to Berwick (North-Eastern) Co-op Store, 15 Marygate, on the wall of the landing on the staircase leading to the first floor. (Closed) From 2008 Co-op Funeral Parlour in Tweedmouth Main Street.
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
a. Unveiled 16th August 1923 by Lt. Col. W.B. Mackay C.M.G. T.D.
b. It was rededicated Monday 10th November 2008 in the Co-op Funeral Parlour in Tweedmouth Main Street.
Memorial Description
Plaque with rounded top, 3 feet high rising to 3 feet 6 inches at its highest x 2 feet wide. It rests on a pattress 2 inches wider. There is a decorated border with laurel and thistles raised on black enamelled background. The dates “1914” and “1918” are in the border in red letters on either side at the top. At centre top is a wreath enclosing a red cross. The lettering is in a variety of elaborate Roman and sans serif capitals.
Materials used
Brass
Inscription
1914-1918 / Erected by / fellow employees’ (sic) in / honoured memory of / those who gave their lives / in the Great War.
“Their name liveth for evermore”.
“Their name liveth for evermore”.
Names
Notes
1. “I am credibly informed there is a war memorial inside, and that it was transferred from their previous premises”. (R.W. Gould)
2. “Its preservation can never be taken for granted as I have learnt from conversations with my friend, the current Co-op Manager, Mr. Hugh McNeill, that the memorial is only on view in its present position because of his own efforts to have it displayed in a suitable place after discovering it some years ago in another position when a false wall was removed. At the time he could not believe that someone had previously covered up the memorial in this fashion! It might have been lost forever if he had not acted as he did”. (Letter from John Nicholls)
2. “Its preservation can never be taken for granted as I have learnt from conversations with my friend, the current Co-op Manager, Mr. Hugh McNeill, that the memorial is only on view in its present position because of his own efforts to have it displayed in a suitable place after discovering it some years ago in another position when a false wall was removed. At the time he could not believe that someone had previously covered up the memorial in this fashion! It might have been lost forever if he had not acted as he did”. (Letter from John Nicholls)
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: J. Brown
Berwick Advertiser 24/08/1923 reports unveiling. (Available on The British Newspaper Archive)
Source of quotation:
“Their name liveth for evermore” Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 44
Berwick Advertiser 24/08/1923 reports unveiling. (Available on The British Newspaper Archive)
Source of quotation:
“Their name liveth for evermore” Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 44
Research acknowledgements
The late R.W. Gould; Janet Brown; Phil Rowett; John Nicholls, East Ord; Tony Harding
Research In Progress
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Plaque 1914-18 Tweedmouth Co-operative Society (B25.29)
BERWICK ON TWEED Tweedmouth Co-op
1914 1918
Erected by
their fellow employees
in
Honoured Memory of
those who gave their lives
in the Great War
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Henry Demee, Pte. 8th Seaforths.
Thomas Logan, Sigr. 20th. Hussars.
James Lyall, Pte. 7th N.F.
Walter Marshall, Pte. 7th N.F.
Alex. Noble, Pte. 7th N.F.
Henry Wylie, Pte. 7th N.F.
James Stokoe Pte. 8th Y. & L.
James C. White, Seaman, R.N.R.
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“Their Name Liveth For Evermore”.
NamesB25.29
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