Memorial

Cot 1939-45 Ingham Infirmary

Westoe

Memorial Name: Cot 1939-45 Ingham Infirmary (W101.04)

NEWMP Ref No.: W101.04

Parish: Westoe

Original Location:

Ingham Infirmary, South Shields. (demolished)

In new wing.

Present Location:

South Shields Museum & Art Gallery
Ref: TWCMS 2013.213

Which War:

1939-45

Materials Used:

Brass plaque.

How Money was Raised:

Public subscription.

Present Condition: The Hospital has been demolished.

Inscription:

This cot was endowed by a fund raised by members of the
Civil Defence Wardens service of South Shields as a memorial to the
following five of their comrades who made the supreme sacrifice
during the war of 1939-1945.

Memorial Description:

Cot.

There is a plaque with black lettering.

It has single line border in red.

The title is in red, the text in black, using Gothic script throughout.

Names:

5 names and dates of death.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. Three of the names also are remembered on S86.034

2. Note the spelling of Slesser and Sutton on the Memorial.

3. The plaque is dated 18th October 1944 and commemorates the donation of a bed through a fund raised by the members of the Civil Defence Wardens Service of South Shields, in memory of fellow members: Hilda Thompson, William George Baldry, George Bertram, James Oswald Norrie Slesser and Stanley Sutton, who died during 1939-45 war.