Memorial

Triptych 1914-18 All Saints

Muggleswick

Memorial Name: Triptych 1914-18 All Saints (M48.02)

NEWMP Ref No.: M48.02

Parish: Muggleswick

Original Location:

Muggleswick All Saints Church.

Originally in church porch, but moved inside to prevent further deterioration.

Present Location:

On north wall, behind font.

Which War:

1914-18

Materials Used:

Wood shrine, brass fittings

Inscription:

In gable top:
For
God, King and Country.

On central panel :
Greater † love hath
no man . than this.
(Names)
The Heroic Dead.

At bottom:
This war shrine is
erected in memory of
Robinson R. Milner

Both inside panels
Roll of
Honour
(Names)

At very bottom of modern framed transcript:
The War Memorial was removed from the Church Porch to the present position for preservation purposes in 1998 through the generosity of Mrs. Anne Herbert, a great-grand-daughter of Utrick Alexander Ritson.

Memorial Description:

Triptych of popular style in the form of wooden case, with a pitched roof style top and two folding doors. The overall size is 49 inches high x 40 inches wide (124cms x 102cms).

In the gable top are the words “For God, King and Country” painted in gold lettering with black shadowing.

At the bottom, below the doors, is the dedication, painted in black capitals.

Inside, the centre panel has a brass cross with the words “Greater love hath no man than this” on either side of the top, painted in faded gold letters with black shadowing.

The names of those who died are listed on either side of the cross with the words “The Heroic Dead” underneath, to the left of which is a gold star.

The names of those who served are listed on the insides of the doors in black painted lettering.

Due to the condition of the memorial, a framed transcript has been made and placed underneath. The layout of the wording is slightly different.

Names:

7 names of those who died,
53 names and ranks of those who served including those who died.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. This shrine has all the appearance of having been made by Hughes Bolckow of Blyth from timbers of the “HMS Britannia”. See B42.01

2. See Robinson Milner’s Every Name a Story entry

Sources:

Photos: Errol Broomfield; Ron Carson; Dorothy Hall

Source of quotation:
 “Greater love hath . . .” St. John’s 15 v 13

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Ron Carson;
Errol Broomfield;
Revd. David Irvine;
Helen Barrass

Research In Progress:

All the names of the fallen on this memorial have been researched.

See Every Name a Story entries.

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Names Documents:

MUGGLESWICK    Church.

  

The layout of the shrine is slightly different

from the framed transcript.

  

  For

  God, King and Country.

 

  Left hand door         Centre panel          Right hand door

  Roll                                         Roll

  of Honour              Greater love hath     of Honour   

                         no man than this             

  Lieut-Colonels         Killed in action      Sappers 

  W.H. Ritson CMG        Joseph Craggs         J.B. Ayre

  R.G. Ritson            T.W. Brown B.Sc.      R. Thompson    

  C. Ward Ritson         Robinson R. Milner    J.G. Joice

  Major                  R. Lowden M.M.        J.S. Gowland

  J.R. Ritson            Thomas Smith          J.M. Raine   

  Captain                                      G. Ingram

  R.F. Harrison          Died of disease       Privates

  2nd Lieutenants        Thomas G. Hall        J. Litt

  U.A. Ritson            Joseph Boyle          T. Gibbon

  J. Cowing                                    W. Raine

  G. Cadet                                     R.R. Milner

  H. Morland Richardson                        T.G. Hall

  Corporal                                     Joseph Boyle   

  R. Pattison                                  M.H. Milner

  L/Corporals                                  J. Pattison

  R. Jameson                                   J. Craggs   

  J.S. Gowland                                 A. Jackson

  Pioneers                                     R. Atkinson

  T.W. Brown B.Sc.                             John Boyle

  J.J. Robson                                  F. Bartrope

  W.T.R.N.                                     J. Vietch   

  L. Duncan                                    R. Lowden M.M.

  Gunners                                      J.C. Bartrope

  T. Duncan M.M.                               W. Guy

  J.W. Sanderson                               J.S. Craggs

  T.E. Hutchinson                              T. Smith

  M. Cowing                                    W.A. Bartrope

  J.Wm. Sanderson                              G.R. Ayre

  

  “The heroic dead”.

 

  This war shrine is

  erected in memory of

  Robinson R Milner.

———————————————–

On transcript but not on triptych:

  The War Memorial was removed from the Church Porch to the present position for

  preservation purposes in 1998 through the generosity of Mrs. Anne Herbert, a great grand-

  daughter of Utrick Alexander Ritson.

NamesM48.02

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