Plaque Boulmer men 1939-45 St. Peter and St. Paul

Church of St. Peter & St. Paul.

North wall of nave.

1939-45

Unveiled November 1948 by the Duke of Northumberland.

Portland stone

Men’s and Women’s Sections of the Alnmouth and District Branch of British Legion.

Estimated £40

“Raised in their entirety by the British Legion who are also paying for the Faculty”.

Mr. C.S. Ormrod, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Designed by Mr. G.E. Charlewood, Newcastle upon Tyne.

To the memory of the men
of Boulmer who gave their
lives in the World War
1939-1945
(Names)

Plaque, very plain, 18 inches high x 30 inches wide (457 mm x 762 mm).

The letters are in blue Roman capitals.

1. This memorial was unveiled on the same day as the memorials in Alnmouth and Lesbury by the Duke of Northumberland.

2. In an annual report, the Alnmouth Branch of the British Legion said that they had erected three memorials, which had cost them £84 0s 6d. and that the Women’s Section had paid half the costs.

3. The Faculty required the words “9 Bn” to be deleted after the name “Noah” as “a barbarous abbreviation”.

Photos: J. Brown; P. Thirkell; Tony Harding

Morpeth Herald
05/11/1948 reports proposed unveiling of three memorials on the same day;
16/12/1948 reports on the British Legion’s costs

Diocese of Newcastle
Faculty Book 2, No. 1669, 19/10/1948

P. Thirkell;
J. Brown;
Patrick Easen;
Tony Harding

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