Memorial Details

NEWMP Memorial Image
Photo: C. Sanders

Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary

Reference

N68.02

Place

NORTON ON TEES

Map ref

NZ 442221

Original Location

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, The Collegiate, Norton Green.

Which war

1914-18

Memorial Description

Plaque 5 feet 4 inches high x 7 feet 5 inches wide. There is a wide moulded border which contains the dedication at the top, the dates down the sides and the quotation along the bottom in raised Roman capitals.
The main panel is subdivided into three, each bearing names in a single column using black Roman capitals with some red.
Three further names have been added between the panels and the border at the bottom.

Materials used

Hoptonwood Stone

Inscription

Roll of Honour of the / men of Norton who fell in the Great War 1914-1919
Their name liveth for evermore.

Names

How money was raised

Public subscription

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photo: C. Sanders

Diocese of Durham Faculty 940, issued 15/07/1920

Darlington and Stockton Times 28/02/1920 reports proposals; 05/02/1921 reports unveiling.

Northern Echo 26/02/1920 reports proposals

Source of quotation
“Their name liveth for evermore” Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus 44

External web link

Links to Source Material :

Research acknowledgements

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; C. Sanders, John and Mavis Dixon; Dorothy Hall; Yorkshire Regiment Remembrance

Research In Progress

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Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary (N68.02)

 
NORTON  St. Mary’s Church
  
  
   The Roll of Honour of the Men of Norton
   who fell in the Great War 
  
   Thomas Allinson       Thomas Percival Guthe Walter Redding  
   James Frank Atkinson  Robert Hall           George W. Ridley  
   Richard Atkinson      Richard Harrison      Albert V. Robinson
   William Beeton        George Norman Hedley  Benjamin Carr Robson     
   Wilfred M. Booth      John Joseph Humble    James Russell    
   Robert Henry Brand    Herbert Jefferies     Francis S. Scott         
   James Cartmell Brown  John Edward Johnson   Harry Sharman  
   John William Brown    George Kidd           Jabez William Sharp
   Norman A. Burnett     John William Kidd     Bert H. Silversides
   William T. Chesworth  Mark Kirby            John Robert Skelton
   Harrison T.Crosby     Thomas Gordon Kirby   William Smart
   A.B. Lifford Crosby   Joseph Henry Kirk     Albert Edward Smith
   Timothy H.S. Crosby   Johnson Lax           Alfred G.H. Smith
   Edward Cross          John A. Littlefair    Walter Victor Smith
   George Oliver Cross   Arthur Lonsdale       Fred Snaith
   Ernest William Cryer  John William Lowes    Andrew Snowdon
   Robert Cubley         Alexander McInteer    George Blair Snowdon
   Arthur C. Cussons     George R. McKenzie    John W. Southall
   William Davies        Rupert Moore          William Taylor
   William Denton        Percival W. Murray    Arthur Thorpe
   Harry C. Dickinson    William Orr           Sidney C. Tingle
   Frederick T. Dietz    Charles H. Osborne    Frederick O. Trechmann
   Donald Stuart Donkin  Harold Pearson        Charles S. Vane-Tempest
   John Norman Dowse     Alfred Pearson        Andrew Ventress
   Francis Inwood Dring  Bertie H. Phillips    Benjamin E. Walker
   Alexander English     Harold Pickard        Robert Hunton Walton
   John Edward English   Thomas A. Pierson     George Wilkinson
   John Rowe Fewster     George G. Porter      John T. Wilkinson
   Edward Fletcher       Thomas Proud          Harold A. Winspear
   Ernest W. Forster     John Ramsey           William A. Wright
-----------------------------------------------------------
In border

    
   William H. Bain       Horace D.R. Kirby     Ronald A. Temperton
  
   Their name liveth for evermore
NamesN68.02

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