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Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary

Reference

P12.08

Place

PONTELAND

Map ref

NZ 165729

Original Location

Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Main Street / North Road. West wall of nave.

Which war

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date

Unveiled 30th September 1923 and dedicated by the Vicar, Rev. F.W. Langton.

Memorial Description

Plaque approx. 2 feet 6 inches high x 18 inches wide set in a pink marble pattress with carved borders approx. 3 feet high surmounted by two pinnacles at the top corners, and about 2 feet 3 inches wide. The names are listed in two columns, lettering throughout is in sans serif capitals, painted black.
There is a British Army tin hat above, and a pink marble shelf below.

Materials used

Marble and alabaster.

Inscription

To the glory of God / and in grateful memory of the men / from Ponteland who gave their lives / in the Great War 1914-18
May they rest in peace.

Names

40 names.
See transcript.

How money was raised

Public subscription

Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material

Photos: J. Brown; P. Thirkell; T. Harding

Illustrated Chronicle 01/10/1923 reports unveiling.

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 06/10/1923 reports unveiling.

Source of quotation:
�May they rest in peace� Mass for the Dead

Links to Source Material :

Morpeth Herald 1923 10 05 Fri

Research acknowledgements

Ponteland Local History Society; Janet Brown; P. Thirkell; the late R.W. Gould; T. Harding; Dorothy Hall

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Plaque 1914-18 St. Mary (P12.08)

PONTELAND, St. Mary the Virgin Church

   To the Glory of God

   and in grateful memory of the men

   from Ponteland who gave their lives

   in the Great War 1914-1918

   Herbert G. Baldwin   Thomas Lant

   David J. Barnes      Andrew B. McCreath

   Samuel Battensby     Robert Moffitt

   Stanley R. Bone      Edmund Mortimer

   Walter Brighton      William Brian Mortimer

   Thomas Brown         Thomas Ord

   William J. Caughey   John Pollard

   John Crozier         George Railton

   George T. Emms       Charles Richardson

   Thomas Gibson        Ridley Robinson

   William Glass        Henry Smith

   Andrew Graham        James Stobert

   John Graham          William S. Thompson

   James L. Hall        Charles H. Walls

   Maurice C. Hill      Thomas Weightman

   Geoffrey Hutchinson  Thomas Wilde

   Charles R. Ions      John Wilkinson

   Norman Kane          James Wilson

   John Kettley         James Young

   Edwin Lant           Richard Youngman

    May they rest in peace

NamesP12.08

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