Memorial

Cross 1914-18 St. Paul’s Churchyard

Haswell

Memorial Name: Cross 1914-18 St. Paul's Churchyard (H116.01)

NEWMP Ref No.: H116.01

Parish: Haswell

Original Location:

St. Paul’s Churchyard

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 18th July 1920 by Capt. E.H. Veitch, 8th D.L.I.,
dedicated by Rev. G.S. Skene, Vicar.

Materials Used:

Polished grey granite

Who Commissioned:

War Memorial Committee, Chairman Rev. G.S. Skene, Secretaries, S. Jackson and S.Wiseman, Treasurer M. Ramshaw.

Cost:

£220

How Money was Raised:

Public subscription

Inscription:

†
Greater love hath no
man than this, that
a man lay down his life
for his friends.”

Roll of Honour
Names of the men
from the parish of Haswell
who gave their lives
for their King & Country
in the Great War
1914-1919.

“Their bright spirits still
tenant the hearts of those
who loved them.
They lie
imperishably fair, crowned
with the garlands of
immortal youth”.

Memorial Description:

Cross, total height 86 inches (218cms), set on a sturdy pedestal 13 inches high x 51 inches square (33cms x 130cms).

The whole stands in a flagged area with 6 inch stone raised border.

There is a pattern inserted in white around the top of the pedestal.

A narrow white line has also been inserted to delineate the panels with an arched top.

The dedication is on the front, names are in a single column on each of the other three sides, using sans serif capitals.

Names:

83 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The names listed in two columns complete the alphabetical list. A third column is also alphabetically complete. These names were added later and are those of men who died after the war either at home or in hospital.

External Links:

Historic England Listing

Sources:

Photos: C. Sanders, James Pasby

Auckland and County Chronicle
22/07/1920

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
19/07/1920

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
24/07/1920 reports unveiling.

Sunderland Echo
19/07/1920 page 4

Sources of quotations:
 “Greater love hath no man . . .” St. John 15 v 13;
“Their bright spirits still tenant . . .” Field Marshall Lord French

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
C. Sanders;
William Chalder Wood;
Dorothy Hall;
James Pasby

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Names Documents:

HASWELL   St. Paul’s Churchyard

 

Front

  +

  “Greater love hath no

  man than this, that

  a man lay down his life

  for his friends”.

  ——

  Roll of Honour

  ——

   Names of the men

  from the parish of Haswell

  who gave their lives

  for their King & Country

  in the Great War

  1914-1919.

  ——

  “Their bright spirits still

  tenant the hearts of those

  who loved them.  They lie

  imperishably fair, crowned

  with the garlands of

  immortal youth”.

——————————————————–

  First side      Second side         Third side

  Ralph Bainbridge     Maurice Letsome     George Brackenbury  

  Walter Bainbridge    John E. Locker      John Brown   

  James Alma Barras    John George Mason   John Curran

  Norman Beardmore     Thompson Mathieson  John Carr    

  James Bell           John Mellonby       Michael Coxon     

  Simon Bennett        Peter Mitchell      John Taylor Forbes

  Edward Bentham       George E. Nesbitt   William Green        

  Thomas Bowman        John G. Ness        Mark Hall  

  William George Carr  Robert Niles        Stanley Hall

  Ralph Cavanagh       George E. Parkin    William Hogg

  William Chalder      John Peel           John E. Hyland

  David Cornell        Frank Ramshaw       William Johnson   

  John Cowie           George Reay         Richard Luke

  John W. Davies       Leonard Sherratt    Joseph J. Milburn    

  John Burke Divine    Henry Simpson       Harold Stafford   

  Hugh Ellis           Frederick Smith     George Whitton

  Patrick Elmore       Wilfrid Smith       George Luke

  John Foley           David R. Souter   

  John Green           William Shackler

  Walter Chaplin Green Ernest Shackler  

  John Herbert Hayes   George Stranburg

  William Hazel        Thomas Sutheran  

  John Potts Hedley    John Robert Tate  

  Edward Henderson     William Routledge Tate

  James G. Henderson   Robert Taylor

  William Henderson    Joseph Thompson

  Edward Hogg          Thomas Timberlake

  John C. Hogg         George H. Wade

  Percy Hughes         Frank Walker  

  George Hyland        George W. Wanless

  Hugh Hyland          John George Wilson

  Thomas Jay           John Withington  

  George Johnson       James P. Worthy

NamesH116.01

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