Plaque 1914-18 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School

Queen Elizabeth High School, Whetstone Bridge Road.
See note below.

1914-18

Brass plaque.

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Old Boys’ Association.

By subscription from members of the Old Boys’ Association.

E.H. Thew., Team Valley, Gateshead upon Tyne.

A.D. 1914 – 1918
To the glory of Almighty God the only giver of all victory
and the memory of the fallen thankfully dedicated.
(Names)

Plaque 24 inches high x 48 inches wide (61cms x 122cms), mounted on a wood pattress.

This is the higher of two plates mounted on the same board.

In the centre top of each is an embossed and enamelled copy of the school badge, with the appropriate date on either side of the badge, written in Gothic lettering.

The names are listed in three columns, with a vertical line between each column, using sans serif capitals.

1. The 1939-45 memorial was removed from the Grammar School at Fellside, Hexham, when the new school was opened in April 1965. The plaque for 1914-18 was then made to match the one for 1939-45, and the two plaques fixed to the same mounting. The original 1914-18 plaque, which records 113 names of those who served and died, was left in the Fellside School when it became the Middle School.

2. The school motto translates as “The hope of the ancestors lives on”.

3. In 1965 Hexham’s Queen Elizabeth Grammar School appealed to its Old Boy’s Association to raise £100 to enable war memorials dedicated to ex-pupils to be transferred from the old school to the new premises in Whetstone Bridge Road.

Photos: C.N. Dallison

Hexham Courant
14/08/2015 feature “50 years ago” reports item in Note 3 above.

C.N. Dallison;
Robert MacFarlane

Alan Grint has researched the names on the Hexham memorials in his book The Faith and Fire Within, 2006, Ergo Press ISBN 0955275814

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