Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 Hexham Golf Club

Hexham

Memorial Name: Plaque 1914-18 Hexham Golf Club (H51.35)

NEWMP Ref No.: H51.35

Parish: Hexham

Original Location:

Hexham Golf Club, West Road.

Present Location:

See Note 1 below.

Which War:

1914-18

Materials Used:

Brass in wood frame.

Inscription:

In memory of those
the members of this club
who fell in the Great War
1914-1918

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Memorial Description:

Plaque, 20 inches high x 23 inches wide (51cms x 59cms), with raised rectangle at centre top.

The names are surrounded by a laurel wreath, tied with a ribbon, the tail pieces of which bear the Latin inscription.

The whole is mounted in a plain wide wood frame.

The lettering is in Roman capitals, the letter “V” is substituted for the letter “U”.

Names:

16 surnames and initials.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. Originally erected in former clubhouse (now Princess House) on the West Road, at the corner of the road to Spital House. It was removed when the building was sold for a petrol Filling Station and re-erected in Spital House, which was opened as the new Clubhouse in 1954.

Sources:

Photos: C.N. Dallison; Alan Pickersgill

Source of quotation
“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (“It is a sweet and noble thing to die for one’s country” Horace, Odes Book 3, No.2, 1.13