Memorial
Book of Remembrance 1939-45 Grammar School
Heaton
Memorial Name: Book of Remembrance 1939-45 Grammar School (H91.02)
NEWMP Ref No.: H91.02
Parish: Heaton
Heaton Grammar School, which later became part of Heaton Manor School, Newton Road, NE7 7DP. NZ 26381 66643
Heaton Manor School, Newton Road, (demolished), site now Jesmond Park Academy.
Jesmond Park Academy, Jesmond Park West, Newcastle upon Tyne. occupies the same site. NE7 7DP. NZ 26381 66643
1939-45
Unveiled 1950.
Rededicated at special assembly on November 11th 2004.
Oak for the screens, lectern and panelling.
School
Public subscription
Present Condition: Excellent
F.E. Loughton, BA., B.Sc., Art Master, and J.A. Waldron, Handicraft Master.
Designed by F.E. Loughton, BA., B.Sc., Art Master
Ownership and Maintenance: Heaton Grammar School.
This book
commemorates the names
and service of Heatonians
and Old Heatonians
who in the World War
1939-1945, gave their lives
in the defence of their country
and in the cause of freedom.
A plaque on the lectern reads
This memorial was unveiled by
Mr. F.R. Barnes, MA., our Head Master
on Sunday 1st October 1950
The original design and the Book of Remembrance
are the work of Mr. F.E. Loughton, BA., B.Sc.,
The Art Master while we owe
the shrine and the lectern
to the craftsmanship of Mr. J.A. Waldron,
Handicraft Master in the School.
Roll of Honour, hand written, one name to each page, with all the accompanying details.
Each name has added to it a single line of a quotation, either from the Bible, or from a poem.
The book is kept on an oak lectern, which is in front of a wooden reredos, which has on it, at the top, the School’s coat of arms, and underneath are the words “As you grow up, remember us who say / ‘For your tomorrows we gave our today’.
There are fine low carved oak screens in front of the lectern.
84 names, ranks and regiments,
with, where known, details of how and when killed, and where buried.
See transcript.
1. An informant says that a prize was also established.
2. In the new school building “The memorial now occupies a more prominent position in the school, being located in the main ‘street’ on the ground floor, outside the School hall. The oak lectern and Book of Remembrance are in place in front of the wooden reredos, which is now attached to the wall. However, the current position has led to the removal of the low carved wooden screens in front of the lectern” (Mr. Dryden, Headmaster, 13/12/2004).
3. The original buildings, which housed both Heaton Grammar School (for boys) and Heaton High School (for girls), were on the site where Heaton Manor School now stands. The schools were separated by a wall, with the boys’ school entrance on Jesmond Park West and the girls’ school entrance on Newton Road.
4.The memorial was transferred to the new school – Heaton Manor School in 2004.
History of Heaton Schools.
Photos: Philip Thirkell
Source of quotation
The quotation on the reredos is an adaptation of that on the memorial in Kohima, Burma to the men killed in the Far East, which reads: “When you go back, tell them of us and say/ For your tomorrow we gave our today”.
Additional Research Documents
Philip Thirkell;
Mr. Dryden, Headmaster, Heaton Manor School.
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HEATON, GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Heaton Grammar School
Newcastle upon Tyne
1939-1945
Roll of Honour
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This book
commemorates the names
& service of Heatonians &
Old Heatonians
who in the World War
1939-1945, gave their lives
in the defence of their country
and in the cause of freedom
———————————-
Flying Officer
Frederick Aiston
1932-1937
The Royal Air Force.
Missing over the Bay of
Bengal 3rd March 1944
“With proud thanksgiving a mother for her children”
———————————-
Sergeant Air Gunner
William Brian Allan
1933-1937
The Royal Air Force
Squadron No. 18
Missing in an attack on Catania
Sicily December 8th 1941
“England mourns for her dead
across the sea”
———————————-
Flying Officer
Edmund Maurice Berry
1930-1934
The Royal Air Force
Missing on an operational flight
over Burma on 14th April 1944
“Flesh of her flesh, they were,
spirit of her spirit”
———————————-
Flying Officer
Stanley Sherwin Brand
1931-1939
The Royal Air Force
Killed at Latina in the Volturno
Valley on the 5th March 1943
and interred in the Minturno
Military Cemetery, Italy
“Fallen in the cause of the free”.
———————————-
Geoffrey Brewis
1932-1936
The Fleet Air Arm
“Solemn the drums thrill
Death august and royal”
———————————-
Robert Bulman
1928-1930
The Merchant Navy
“Sings sorrow up
into immortal spheres”
———————————-
Pilot Officer
James Denys Clapperton
1940-1941
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Killed in North Africa
on the 26th July 1944
“There is music in the midst of desolation”
———————————-
Peter Morrison Clark
1931-1936
The Merchant Navy
“And a glory
that shines upon our tears”
———————————-
Sergeant Air Gunner
Donald Clayton
1934-1938
The Royal Air Force
Killed in an air accident at
Millom 23rd September 1943 &
interred in the Walker Churchyard
“They went with songs to the
battle, they were young”
———————————-
Lieutenant
Maurice Alexander Cook
1934-1939
Army Parachute Regiment
1st Parachute Battalion
Killed whilst leading a patrol at
Rimini, Italy on 17th September 1944 &
interred in the British Cemetery
“Straight of limb true of eye,
Steady and aglow”
———————————-
Flight Lieutenant
Arthur Cowie DFM
1929-1933
The Royal Air Force
Killed in a bombing raid on
Lorient on 13th February 1943
and interred in Guidel Cemetery
Nr. Quimperle, Finisterre.
“They were staunch to the end
against odds uncounted”.
———————————-
Lance-Sergeant
David Alfred Crockett
1930-1934
Army Royal Engineers (Terr.)
Killed in Saga River, Burma
15th March 1945 and interred in
the Military Cemetery, Mandalay
“They fell
with their faces to the foe”
———————————-
Raymond S. Dickinson
1934-1939
The Army
“They shall not grow old
as we that are left grow old;”
———————————-
Sergeant
George C. Douglas
1930-1935
The Royal Artillery
Wounded and missing at
Tobruk 20th June 1942
“Age shall not weary them
nor the years condemn”
———————————-
Flying Officer
David S. Dumble
1936-1940
Pilot in the Royal Air Force
Missing, presumed killed at
Nassau in the Bahamas on
April 9th 1945
“At the going down of the sun
and in the morning”
———————————-
Sergeant Pilot
Robert Frederick Greetham
1930-1934
The Royal Air Force
Lost at sea in the Bay of
Bengal on the 27th June 1944
“We will remember them”
———————————-
Lance-Corporal
John Maurice Durston
1930-1935
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died as a Prisoner of War on
May 27th 1940 and buried in
the Rue Calonne, Leblume
“They mingle not with their
laughing comrades again;”
———————————-
Leading Aircraftsman
Alan Duthie
1931-1937
The Royal Air Force
Killed at Coupar Angus
Perthshire on 10th September 1941
“They sit no more at familiar
tables of home”
———————————-
Coder
Stephen Edington
1932-1936
The Royal Navy
Missing after his ship the Corvette
HMS Arbutus was torpedoed by
a submarine on 5th February 1942
“They have no lot in our labour
of the daytime”
———————————-
Leading Naval Airman
Leslie Dryden Elliott
1929-1935
The Fleet Air Arm
Missing at sea on the
17th January 1941
“They sleep beyond England’s foam”
———————————-
Eric Foster
1931-1935
The Royal Air Force
“But where our desires are
and our hopes profound”
———————————-
Flying Officer
Cyril Hollingsworth Georges
1931-1936
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Shot down and killed after an attack on
an enemy airfield at Bizerta, 4th of
December 1942
and interred in the
Beja War Cemetery, Tunisia.
“Felt as a well spring
that is hidden from sight”
———————————-
Sergeant W.D.P.
Leslie Trevethan Gibson
1933-1937
The Royal Air Force
Missing in an air collision near
Ailsa Craig Island 21st May 1943
“To the innermost heart
of their own land they are known”
———————————-
Pilot Officer
Leslie Warren Gospel
1931-1936
49 Squadron Royal Air Force
Killed in air operations over
France on August 16th 1943
Interred at Cheronvilliers, Eure, France
“As the stars are known to the Night”
———————————-
Brian Gray, D.F.M.
1930-1935
The Royal Air Force
“As the stars that shall be bright
when we are dusk”
———————————-
Geoffrey Harker
1928-1932
The Royal Air Force
“Moving in marches
upon the heavenly plain”
———————————-
Leading Aircraftsman Observer
Brian George Harrison
1933-1938
The Royal Air Force
Killed at Willowmere South
Africa 16th January 1942
Buried at Dudtshoorn, South Africa
“As the stars that are starry
in the time of our darkness”
———————————-
Raymond Harvey
1931 -1936
The Royal Air Force
“To the end, to the end, they remain”
———————————-
Flight Sergeant
Frederick Hay
1931-1936
The Royal Air Force
(Pathfinders)
Shot down and killed in a bombe
raid on Stuttgart on 15th April 1943
Interred at Rhineberg
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The above lines are from
“For The Fallen “,
by
Laurence Binyon
———————————-
Sergeant Navigator
Donald Hopkins
1934-1939
The Royal Air Force
Killed while returning from
Dusseldorf on the 4th April 1944 &
buried in the R.A.F. Cemetery, Harrogate
———————————-
The following lines are from
“The Dead”, by Rupert Brooke.
———————————-
Corporal
Edward Arthur Hopper
1935-1940
The Royal Air Force
Died in Wheatley Hospital for Head
Injuries Oxford on May 16th 1946
and lies at Crematorium West Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
“Blow out your bugles
over the rich Dead;”
———————————-
Sergeant
Roland Harry Johnson
1929-1934
R.A.F. Coastal Command
Missing off the Dutch Coast
on May 28th 1941
“There’s none of these
so lonely and poor of old,”
———————————-
Sergeant Pilot
William Kay
1931-1936
The Royal Air Force
No.65 East India Squadron
Killed at Dunkirk
on the 21st August 1941
“But, dying has made us, rarer gifts than gold”
———————————-
Cadet
Donald George Kinghorn
1941-1944
The Merchant Navy
Killed on the Atlantic Ocean
on April 18th 1945 as the result
of enemy submarine action
“These laid the world away;
poured out the red”
———————————-
Arnold Kossick
1933-1938
The Royal Air Force
“Sweet wine of youth,
gave up the years to be”
———————————-
Corporal-Piper
Frederick John Laidler
1931-1936
Black Watch Tyneside Scottish
Killed at Ficheux May 20th 1940
and interred there
“Of work and joy
and that unhoped serene,”
———————————-
Lieutenant
Robert Leftwich
1928-1932
Hon. Artillery Coy. Regt.
Royal Horse Artillery
Killed in action near Mersa
Matruh on 29th June 1942
“That men call age;
and those that would have been”
———————————-
Charles Lucas
1928-1933
The Royal Air Force
“Their sons, they gave,
their immortality.”
———————————-
Bombardier
William A. Macdonald
1930-1935
124th Regiment of the Royal Artillery
Missing presumed dead at El
Gazala North Africa 28th June 1942
“Blow, bugles, blow, they brought
for us, for our dearth”
———————————-
Sergeant Observer
James Quar McPherson
1929-1935
Royal Air Force
Killed at Carew Cheriton, Tenby,
Pembrokeshire 5th March 1942
and interred in St. Andrew’s Cemetery, Jesmond.
“Holiness, lacked so long,
and Love, and Pain,”
———————————-
Flight Sergeant Pilot
Francis D. McQuillan
1933-1938
The Royal Air Force
Killed in air operations over
Antwerp Belgium 22nd June 1943
and buried at Scoonselhop Antwerp
“Honour has come back
as a king, to earth,”
———————————-
Sergeant Pilot
Rex Mitchell
1931-1936
The Royal Air Force
Killed in a ‘plane crash at
Middlesbrough 8th November 1939
“And paid his subjects
with a royal wage;”
———————————-
Private
Noel Moffat
1928-1931
2nd Batt. Durham Light Infantry
Killed in action in Burma during the
Arakan Campaign on 18th March 1943
and now interred in
the Akyab Military Cemetery, Mandalay, Burma
“And Nobleness walks
in our ways again,”
———————————-
Gunner
Kenneth Murray
1929-1935
Northumberland Hussars
Killed in action in Crete on
the 24th May 1941
and interred in Military Cemetery
Suda Bay, Crete
“And we have come into our
heritage.”
———————————-
John I. Morton
1930-1936
The Army
———————————-
The following lines are from
“The Soldier”, by Rupert Brooke.
———————————-
John Newman
1928-1932
The Army
“If I should die,
Think only this of me,”
———————————-
Lieutenant
Victor Norman
1930-1936
Royal Corps of Signals
Killed in Italy on 16th July 1944
and interred in the British Empire
Cemetery, Assissi.
“That there’s some corner
of a foreign field”
———————————-
Ernest Parker
1935-1939
The Royal Air Force
“That is for ever England.
There shall be”
———————————-
Sergeant Pilot
John Jackson Pattison
1935-1940
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Killed in a flying accident at Barnetby-le-Wold Lincolnshire on
30th July 1945 and interred in the
Borough Cemetery Cambridge
“In that rich earth
a richer dust concealed;”
———————————-
Sergeant Air Gunner
Neville James Patton
1928-1930
Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Killed on operations over the Ruhr
at St. Trond Belgium 7th April 1942
and buried at Louvain,
Belgium.
“A dust whom England bore,
shaped, made aware,”
———————————-
Flying Officer
Alan Pirie
1933-1938
The Royal Air Force
Missing over the Atlantic
Ocean on the 10th November 1944
“Gave once her flowers
to love, her ways to roam;”
———————————-
Leading Aircraftsman
Thomas Henry Philipson
1932-1937
The Royal Air Force
Died in Johannesburg
on the 28th August 1942
“A body of England’s
breathing English air,”
———————————-
Sergeant Air Gunner
Kenneth Reid
1935-1940
The Royal Air Force
Killed at Armsvote near Stow-on
the Wold on the 18th October 1943
and buried at the West Road
Crematorium, Newcastle upon Tyne
“Washed by the rivers
blest by the suns of home.”
———————————-
Flight Sergeant
James Alan Rennolds
1933-1938
The Royal Air Force
Missing on air operations
over Malta on the 22nd May 1943
“And think this heart,
all evil shed away,
———————————-
Sergeant W.O./A.G.
Frederick James Robinson
1928-1933
Royal Air Force, 102 Squadron
Killed at Flensburg on October 1st
1942 and interred in the British
Military Cemetery, Kiel
“A pulse in the eternal
mind, no less”
———————————-
Gunner
John Reuben Robinson
1933-1937
The Royal Artillery
Died in the Military Hospital at
Cassert, Italy on April 19th 1943
and buried in the Caserta
Communal
Cemetery
“Gives somewhere back
the thoughts by England given”
———————————-
Richard A. Robinson
1938-1941
Killed by an enemy anti-
personnel device at Loudside,
Northumberland (whence he had
been evacuated) on October 1st 1944
He lies in Jesmond Old Cemetery
“Her sights and sounds;
dreams happy as her day;”
———————————-
Peter Robinson
1937-1942
The Army
“And laughter, learned of
friends, and gentleness,”
———————————-
Leading aircraftsman
Dennis Robson
1934-1938
The Royal Air Force
Killed at Elmas Airfield, Sardinia
on the 16th November 1944 and
interred in the American War
Cemetery, Cagliari, Sardinia.
“In hearts at peace,
under an English heaven”
———————————-
Private
James Leslie Shepherd
1928-1930
The Border Regiment
Wounded and missing in the
Burma Campaign 7th January 1945
———————————-
“Songs of Praise,” No. 293
‘O valiant hearts,
who to your glory came”
———————————-
Ronald Sinclair
1932-1937
The Army
“Through dust of conflict
and through battle flame;”
———————————-
John Snowden
1939-41
Killed in an enemy air raid
on Newcastle upon Tyne
“Tranquil you lie,
your knightly virtue proved,”
———————————-
James Stewart
1931-1936
The Army
“Your memory hallowed
in the land you loved.”
———————————-
Sergeant Pilot
Ronald Fred Southern
1932-1937
The Royal Air Force
Missing while flying over the
Mediterranean Sea, Middle East
on the 23rd May 1942
“Proudly you gathered
rank on rank to war,”
———————————-
Sergeant Pilot
Ronald Soppitt Southern
1932-1937
The Royal Air Force
Died of burns and shock at Stracathro,
Brechin, Scotland on 30th July 1942 &
interred in All Saints Cemetery, Jesmond.
“As who had heard
God’s message from afar;”
———————————-
Chief Radio Officer
Ernest Sturdy
1928-1930
The Merchant Navy
Presumed drowned when his
ship was torpedoed in the South
Atlantic on the 12th May 1942.
“All you had hoped for
all you had, you gave”
———————————-
Sergeant Wireless Operator
William Swordy Taylor
1928-1930
The Royal Air Force
Killed at Eagle Rock, Slieve Donard,
County Down on 16th March 1942.
“To save mankind
yourself you scorned to save.”
———————————-
John Thompson
1930-1934
The Royal Air Force
“Splendid you passed,
the great surrender made,”
———————————-
Telegraphist
Leslie John Thompson
1929-1933
The Royal Navy
Missing, presumed killed after
being torpedoed in the English
Channel on the 2nd October 1942
“Into the light
that nevermore shall fade;”
———————————-
Robert Fraser Thompson
1934-1938
The Royal Air Force
“Deep your contentment
in the blest abode,”
———————————-
Sergeant pilot
Vernon J.S. Tindale
The Royal Air Force
Killed at Vright, Holland on the
26th May 1943 and buried in the
British Military Cemetery, Uden
“Who wait the last clear
trumpet-call of God.”
———————————-
Flight Sergeant
Edward Norman Todd
1934-1938
The Royal Air Force
Killed while returning from an
operational flight over enemy
territory on 28th June 1944 and
interred in Heaton Cemetery
“These were his servants
in his steps they trod,”
———————————-
Pilot Officer
Sidney Ronald Tuck
1932-1937
The Royal Air Force
Missing after enemy action at
sea on the 30th October 1942.
“Following through death
the martyred Son of God:”
———————————-
Sergeant Navigator
Stephen Boag Tuff
1934-1939
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Crashed at Ashbourne, England
on the 24th July 1941 and buried
at All Saints Cemetery,
Jesmond.
“Victor he rose; victorious too shall rise”
———————————-
Sergeant
Alfred Robert Veitch
1934-1938
The Royal Air Force
Killed in Holland on the
15th June 1943 and buried
in the British Cemetery at
Jonkersbosch, Nymegen
“They who have drunk
His cup of sacrifice.”
———————————-
Flying officer
Thomas Wardhaugh
1928-1931
Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Shot down and killed in Northern
Holland on 21/22 September 1941
and buried at Delden, N.
Holland.
“O risen Lord,
O Shepherd of our dead,”
———————————-
Flying Officer
Robert Alan Watson
1931-1936
The Royal Air Force
Shot down and killed at
Mogok Burma on the 9th May
1944 and interred at Mandalay
“Whose cross has brought them
and whose staff has led,”
———————————-
Corporal
Thomas Robert Wills
1928-1930
The Royal Air Force
Killed in an air crash in the
United Kingdom on 3rd July
1943 and interred at Heaton.
“In glorious hope
their proud and sorrowing
land”
———————————-
William Wilson
1928-1931
The Royal Air Force
“Commits her children
to thy gracious hand.”
———————————-
Leading Aircraftsman
James Henry Attwood
1928-1932
The Royal Air Force
Killed in a flying accident at
Horsham St. Faith, Norfolk
“Still stands his cross
from that dread hour to this,”
———————————-
Flying Officer
Harry Forbes Hamilton
1932-1933
Killed in a flying accident at
Oaksey Wood, Kemble,
Gloucestershire, 4th January 1943
“Like some bright star
above the dark abyss;”
———————————-
Flight Sergeant Navigator
Wilfred Gordon Carr
1934-1939
R.A.F. Bomber Command
Killed on an operational flight
over Germany on 4/5 April 1945
and buried in Ittenbach Cemetery
“Still through the veil,
the victor’s pitying eyes”
———————————-
Sub Lieutenant
Frederick Jeffrey Brown
1931-1936
The Royal Navy
Killed in a flying accident
at Crail, Fife on the 23rd July 1942
“Look down to bless
our lesser Calvaries.”
———————————-
Leading Telegraphist
Donald Ross
1928-1931
The Royal Navy
Lost on the Atlantic off
Gibraltar on the 23rd October 1941
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