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Roll of Honour Superintendents Staff Staff 1914-18 Tyne Dock

Reference

S86.008

Place

SOUTH SHIELDS

Map ref

NZ 352653

Original Location

Tyne Dock offices.

Present Location

Removed with re-organisation. Missing, location unknown.

Which war

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date

Unveiled 16th September 1921 by J.P. Allix, Dock Superintendent.

Memorial Description

Roll of Honour behind glass. From a poor press photo, it seems to have been designed to represent a Greek temple with the names down the centre.

Materials used

Paper behind glass. Oak frame.

Inscription

(To the following 31 members of the Dock Superintendent's Staff, Tyne Dock, who in the Great War 1914-1918 were "faithful unto death").

Names

31 full names.
See transcript.

Who commissioned

Tyne Dock Superintendent's Staff.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer

Mr. J.N. Hodge of the Dock Superintendent's Staff

Notes

1. There was a smaller plaque which bore the words:

�For honour, liberty and truth/ they sacrificed their glorious youth./ They died, if it be death to give / Their lives that all their friends might live�.

2. Despite repeated enquiries concerning this Memorial, the Tyne Dock authorities have no idea of its whereabouts. Presumed Lost.

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Shields Daily News 17/09/1921 page 4 reports the unveiling.

Illustrated Chronicle 19/09/1921 carries photo shown here.

Northern Echo 17/09/1921 reports unveiling.

North Eastern Railway Magazine 1921. page 207 reports the unveiling.

South Shields Gazette 17/09/1921 reports unveiling.

Newcastle Daily Chronicle 17/09/1921 reports unveiling;

Source of quotation
�Faithful unto death� Revelation 2 v 10

External web link

Durham at War

South Tyneside Remembers

Links to Source Material :

Northern Echo 1921 09 17 Sat

Research acknowledgements

The late R.W. Gould; Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale, C. Sanders; Dorothy Hall; Peter Hastie; Michael Mulhern; James Pasby; James Hoy Archive;

Research In Progress

The names on this memorial are being researched by Peter Hoy. Contact: peterhoy@hotmail.co.uk

Roll of Honour Superintendents Staff Staff 1914-18 Tyne Dock (S86.008)

SOUTH SHIELDS, Tyne Dock Offices.

The layout of this memorial is not known.

The following has been extracted from a

newspaper report and has not been compared

with the original nor a good photograph.

     To the following 31 members

     of the

     Dock Superintendent's Staff, Tyne Dock,

     who in the

     Great War 1914-1918

     were "faithful unto death"

     Charles Welling

     Hy. Emmerson

     James W. Grey

     Wm. Hunter

     Alfred Smith

     Hy. Cummings

     J.L. Briscoe or John Briscoe

     *William Curbison or Curbson

     Geo. Lockyer

     James Keaney

     Ralph McCord

     William Hailes

     *J.L. Hutchinson or John F. Hutchinson

     J.E. Mather

     J.L. Robson or John Robson

     J.L. Morton or John Morton

     Hy. Wright

     J.L. Atkinson or John Atkinson

     Philip Lynch

     Richard Halliday

     William Dixon

     William Tidd

     *T.R. Vocknich or Vockuich

     Alexander Tate

     Robert Rennison

     Balfour Foord

     Joseph Holborn

     Ernest Wheldon

     Vincent Taylor

     Benjamin Nelson

     G.L. Atkinson

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    *CWGC gives:

   W. Curbison.

   J.F. Hutchinson

   T.R. Vockuich

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   Newcastle Daily Chronicle 17/9/1921 has:

   Charles Weeling instead of Charles Welling

   And includes: J.L. Atkinson

NamesS86.08

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