Memorial Details
Memorial
Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary
Reference
W100.03
Place
WHITBURN
Map ref
NZ 405616
Original Location
St. Mary’s Parish Church, Church Lane. On the north wall.
Which war
1914-18
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Unveiled 2nd January 1921 by Mr. Sewell; dedicated by the Bishop of Durham.
Memorial Description
Plaque 5 feet high x 6 feet long (1.52m x 1.96m) carved into three panels. The centre part is taller than the two sides. At centre top is a cross in a roundel.
Below, the panel is sunken with a shallow domed top. This panel bears the dedication incised using elaborate upper and lower case lettering. The outer parts have sunken panels bearing the names in a single column on each in Roman capitals.
Below, the panel is sunken with a shallow domed top. This panel bears the dedication incised using elaborate upper and lower case lettering. The outer parts have sunken panels bearing the names in a single column on each in Roman capitals.
Materials used
Red marble.
Inscription
To / the Glory of God and / sacred to the memory of / those forty seven men of / Whitburn who gave their / lives for their country in / the Great European War / A.D. 1914-1919.
These are they who / for God and their Country / jeoparded their lives unto / the death. Therefore they / shall be Mine, saith the Lord / of Hosts, in that day when / I make up my jewels.
These are they who / for God and their Country / jeoparded their lives unto / the death. Therefore they / shall be Mine, saith the Lord / of Hosts, in that day when / I make up my jewels.
Names
Notes
1. Mr. Sewell performed the unveiling in place of Mr. Hedworth Williamson.
2. “We returned to Whitburn (from Cleadon) and at 3 p.m. dedicated a war memorial tablet in the church & gave an address. Sir Hedworth Williamson who was to unveiled the tablet failed to appear but arrived after everything was over at tea at the Rectory”. (Bishop Henson's diary 02/01/1921).
3. The Parish Church, variously dedicated to St.Mary and also to St.Andrew, now has no dedication.
2. “We returned to Whitburn (from Cleadon) and at 3 p.m. dedicated a war memorial tablet in the church & gave an address. Sir Hedworth Williamson who was to unveiled the tablet failed to appear but arrived after everything was over at tea at the Rectory”. (Bishop Henson's diary 02/01/1921).
3. The Parish Church, variously dedicated to St.Mary and also to St.Andrew, now has no dedication.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: Simon Raine; C. Sanders
Sunderland Daily Echo 03/01/1921 reports unveiling. (Available on The British Newspaper Archive)
Sources of quotations
Old Testament composite of Judges 5 v 18 “These are they who . . .” and Malachi 3 v 17 “Therefore they shall be mine . . .”
Sunderland Daily Echo 03/01/1921 reports unveiling. (Available on The British Newspaper Archive)
Sources of quotations
Old Testament composite of Judges 5 v 18 “These are they who . . .” and Malachi 3 v 17 “Therefore they shall be mine . . .”
External web link
Research acknowledgements
Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale; C. Sanders; Dorothy Hall; James Pasby
Research In Progress
The names for 1914-18 are being researched by the Whitburn Local History Society.
Also
Mrs. Christine Buckham, 52 Wheatall Drive, Whitburn, Nr. Sunderland,
SR6 7HQ. 0191 5293007
Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary (W100.03)
WHITBURN St. Mary’s Church
Richard Abbot Norman Laverick
Henry James Noel Palmer Allison Thomas Linford
John Asselbrough To James Miller
Robert Barff the Glory of God and Robert William Mustard
Ernest Jordan Barkess sacred to the memory of Robert Oliver
Robert Humphrey Bruce those forty seven men of George Patterson
Arthur William Buzzard Whitburn who gave their Tom Henry Sparvell Raine
Thomas Buzzard lives for their country in Leonard Ranson
William Chamberlain the Great European War William Tait Sewell
David Dobson A.D. 1914-1919. Alan Shipley
Daniel Donaldson These are they who Joseph Edward Smith
Frederick Elliott M.M. for God and their Country Jacob Talbot Stenton
Robert Emmerson jeoparded their lives unto James Stenton
Frederick Joseph Forster the death. Therefore they Thomas Patterson Stenton
Robert Gibson shall be Mine, saith the Lord Robert Sweeting
Christopher George Grimwood of Hosts, in that day when William Sweeting
George William Hall I make up my jewels. William Tighe
Robert Harper Thomas Wallace
Robert Hogg Alexander Whyte
Cuthbert Ralph Hutchinson John Payne Wight
Arthur Jackson Adolphus Hudleston Williamson CMG
William Jackson Charles Grunwell Young
Robert Percy Kellett Hammet Young
Robert Lamb
NamesW100.03
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