Memorial

Plaque 1914-18 Typographical Association

Newcastle upon Tyne

Memorial Name: Plaque 1914-18 Typographical Association (NUT121)

NEWMP Ref No.: NUT121

Parish: Newcastle upon Tyne

Original Location:

In Church of England Institute, Library and News Room, 11 Hood Street (Closed)

Present Location:

Handed over to Tyne and Wear Archives in November 2018.

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 8th May 1920 by Sir Thomas Oliver.

Materials Used:

Rosewood frame. Mounting card 3 mm thick.

Who Commissioned:

Newcastle Branch Typographical Association

Cost:

Unconfirmed £22 5s 6d

How Money was Raised:

Newcastle Branch Typographical Association members.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Mawson, Swan and Morgan Ltd., Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Ownership and Maintenance: Tyne and Wear archives

Inscription:

Newcastle and District branch of the Typographical Association.
Roll of Honour in memory of those members who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War 1914-19.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Memorial Description:

Roll of Honour in rosewood frame, total size 39 inches high x 33 inches wide (84cms x 100cms)

At centre top is the Association coat of arms, below which is a picture showing printers at work.

‘Surrounded by 30 photograph circular portraits of the men on three sides, and centre top is a neat little photographic photo, illustrative of the days of Caxton’.

The names are listed inside a coloured border of oak leaves with the sphere of service alongside.

At the bottom is the shield with standards on each side.

The shield bears the quotation.

Lettering is printed, with the heading in Gothic script

Names:

31 surnames and Christian names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. Of 650 journeyman of the Typographical Association in all local branches, 300 enlisted.

2. Honours gained were:
Croix de Guerre:  Bomb. E.F. Cook, (R.G.A.);
M.M.: Co.Q.M. Sergt J.H. Cunningham (K.O.R.L.); Pte Hogg, (13th R.F.) and Cpl. G. Lyall (MGC).;
M.S.M.: Sgt.Maj. Thomas Tinlin, (A.S.C.); Regt. Sgt. Maj. George Young (R.F.A.).

3. This Roll of Honour had been missing for over 30 years, and we were told it had been destroyed. It was returned to the North East to the Tyne and Wear Archive offices by an anonymous donor from the South of England where apparently ‘it did not fit in’. 2018.

4. The 30 portraits are inset alphabetical anti clockwise by Surname from the top centre.

5. The Memorial was finished on the 20th March 1920 file ref 6564.

Sources:

Illustrated Chronicle
10/05/1920 reports unveiling.

Newcastle Daily Chronicle
10/05/1920 reports unveiling.

Newcastle Journal
10/05/1920 reports unveiling and other information.

Tyne and Wear Archives
Ref. No. TU.TA1/27.

Sources Link: Illustrated Chronicle 05 10 Mon -1920

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Janet Brown;
Tony Harding;
Dorothy Hall:
James Pasby:
Ann Kent;
Tyne and Wear Archive Service:

Research In Progress:

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Names Documents:

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Church Institute.

 

The layout of this memorial is not known.

The list and information has been extracted

from press reports of the unveiling and have

not been compared with the original.

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  Newcastle and District branch of the

  Typographical Association.  

  Roll of Honour

  in memory of those members

  who made the supreme sacrifice

  in the Great War 1914-19.

 

  Killed in action:

  Joseph Foster Appleby      James Major

  Richard L. Armstrong       Ralph B. Miln (sic)

  Henry Bell                 Ralph Noble

  George Bowman              Samuel D. Robinson

  James R. Carruthers        William Routh

  J. Dunderdale              Andrew Shannon

  Alexander Falconer         John L. Smith

  John L. Gettings           James Snowden

  Henry E. Graham            William Sowerby

  Charles Grant              Robert P. Thornton

  Thomas Grant               Albert G. Tinning

  William Hebron             Alfred B. Walsh

  Joseph Alfred Howes        William Walton

  Ernest Keay                William L. Willmott

  G.W. Lacey                 Joseph Wright

  Jim Lewins   

           

  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man

  lay down his life for his friends.

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