Memorial

Memorial Air raids 1939-45 Cemetery

Seaham and Seaham Harbour

Memorial Name: Memorial Air raids 1939-45 Cemetery (S117.26)

NEWMP Ref No.: S117.26

Parish: Seaham and Seaham Harbour

Original Location:

Princess Road Cemetery.

Near the entrance.

Which War:

1939-45

Materials Used:

Metal

Who Commissioned:

Seaham Town Council

Inscription:

This plaque commemorates those residents of Seaham who lost
their lives in the air raid attacks during the 2nd World War
1939-1945
(Names)
Let them forever be remembered

Memorial Description:

Board with curved top and bottom on stand.

At centre top is the crest of Seaham Town Council.

Names are listed in two columns underneath the date on which they died.

All lettering is in Roman capitals, the names in gold, the rest in white.

Names:

56 full names.
See transcript.

Sources:

Photos: Dorothy Hall

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Dorothy Hall

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Names Documents:

SEAHAM  Cemetery

  This plaque commemorates those residents of Seaham who lost

  their lives in the Air Raid attacks during the 2nd World War

  1939-1945

  August 1940                May 1943

  Edward Swan                Michael Richard Hughes

  Edna May E. Tempest        Doreen Hughes

  Mary Johnson               George Kelly

  Thomas Rochester           Margaret Kennedy

  Helena Rochester           Joseph Nicholson

  Aileen Rochester           Irene Appleton

  Joyce Rochester            John Bell

  Sarah Shaw                 June Corkhill

  William Thompson           Marion Corkhill

  Barbara Ferry              Alan Corkhill

  Doreen Ferry               Barbara Dixon Corkhill

  Alma Gale                  Gerald Corkhill

  Andrew Smith Errington     Wrightson Kirk Cuthbert

                             John Thomas Davison

  October 1940               Joyce Dobson

  Margaret Loraine           Georgina Dobson

  Jane Robson                John Dobson

                             Joan Henderson

  February 1941              William Henderson

  Margaret Wilkinson         Phyllis Miller

  Norman Wilkinson           Jennie Walker

  Patricia Wilkinson         Elizabeth Walker

  Kenneth Green              George William Weir

                             Lily Wild

  September 1942             Derek Davison

  Matthew Davison            Thomas Henry Grainger

  Elizabeth Graham           John Kelly

  December 1942              Richard Nixon

  Matthew Oliver Armstrong   Vincent Oglesby

  May 1943                   Violet Daisy Shaw

  George Kennedy             George Harrison Hall

  Charles Young              Mary Kelly

  Hilda Gaut                 Joseph Bland

 

  Let them forever be remembered

  This notice has been provided by Seaham Town Council on behalf of the community

NamesS117.26

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