Memorial

Plaques 1914-18 1939-45 St. Alban

Windy Nook

Memorial Name: Plaques 1914-18 1939-45 St. Alban (W95.01)

NEWMP Ref No.: W95.01

Parish: Windy Nook

Original Location:

St. Alban’s Church, situated at the junction of Windy Nook Road and Carr Hill Road.

On a pillar.

Which War:

a. 1914-1918
b. 1939-1945

Materials Used:

Brass

How Money was Raised:

Public subscription

Present Condition: Cleaned and polished regularly

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Mr. O.H. Jennings of Mosley Street, Newcastle.

Inscription:

a.
European
War
1914 – 1918
These tablet’s (sic) are erected to
the illustrious
memory of
the men of this
parish who laid
down their lives
for their Country
Greater love hath
no man than
this, that a man
lay down his life
for his friends.
John XV 13.

b.
Remember
also before God
those who died in
World War
1939-1945.

Memorial Description:

Six plaques, each 19 inches high x 8 inches wide, placed in pairs one above the other on three sides of an octagonal pillar.

Each plaque has a wide border with geometric design.

The plaque at centre top bears the dedication for 1914-18, with the dates on a scroll either side of a laurel wreath, and a cross at centre bottom.

The plaque bears the exhortation for 1939-45, again with the dates set on a scroll on either side of a laurel wreath.

The other four plaques carry the names in a single column on each.

The titles are in italic upper case and the names in italic lower case cursive lettering.

Names:

a. 107 full names.
b. 44 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. One of the suggestions for a 1939-45 war memorial was the introduction of electric light and power into the church.

Sources:

Photos: C. Sanders

Heslop’s Local Advertiser
18/01/1947 reports suggestion in Note 1 above.

The Monumental Brasses of County Durham William Lack, H. Martin Stuchfield and Philip Whittemore 2002 ISBN 095 4327101

Source of quotation
 “Greater love hath no man . . .” St John 15 v 13.

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Ethel and Neville Armstrong, Whickham & District L.H.S.;
C. Sanders;
Dorothy Hall

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Names Documents:

WINDY NOOK   St. Alban’s Church,

  

Panel 1

  

  European      

  War                 

  1914 – 1918

       

  These tablets      

  are erected to      

  the illustrious     

  memory of           

  the men of this     

  parish who laid   

  down their lives    

  for their Country   

  

  Greater love hath

  no man than   

  this, that a man

  lay down his life   

  for his friends.    

  S.John XV 13

—————————————————-

Panel 2                  Panel 3

  

  Richard L. Armstrong   Hubert Moody

  Robert B. Arnett       Herbert Mould

  James Ashcroft         Charles C. Mudd

  Robert Avery           George McClelland

  Frederick Baggeley     Edmund McGregor

  Thomas P. Barker       Stuart McGuinness

  Isaac Beattie          John B. McKenny

  George Bell            Thomas A. McLean

  William R. Bickerton   Samuel Newsome

  John T. Bickerton      Joseph Norman

  John W. Brooks         James O‘Neil

  Arthur Brown           Thomas Parker

  John Brown-King        Matthew V. Percival

  Robert Bryden          William Potts

  William Bygate         Joseph Quigley

  John Carter            Thomas M. Richards

  James Case             Harry Robertson

  Michael Chambers       William Robertson

  Robert H. Clark        James Robinson

  Edward Clark           Thomas Robinson

  William Clark          Thomas Robinson

  Thomas Clough          William Robinson

  John E. Codd           Martin Rogan

  Matthew Collin         Christopher Ross

  Robert Coulsey         William Rowley

  Thomas Diamond         Richard Rutter

  Frank Dixon            George A. Shaw

  Joseph C. Dorman       Joseph R. Short

  Matthew Evans          William N. Simpson

  John Fleming           James Sloan

  Thomas Fleming         George Smith

  Robert Foster          William L. Southern

  William W. Freeman     Thomas G. Stocker

  Gilbert Girling        Charles Storey

  Edward Grainger        John Storey

  Robert H. Gray         Thomas Tait

  Milson Greenhaff       Edward Thompson

  Albert Grieveson       Fredrick Thompson

  Hilton Gustard         Thomas Thompson

  John Haker             William Thorn

  Joseph Harrison        John Tinkler

  John A. Havelock       Isaac S. Usher

  William Hay            William Wardle

  Harold T. Hebron       Robert West

  Frederick Hibbert      George C. Whinham

  George Jackson         John Wilkinson

  Thomas Jeffers         Edward Wilson

  William E. Knight      John Wilson

  John T. Lamberton      John H. Winwood

  John H. Liddle         Andrew Wood

  Thomas Lightfoot       George Wood

  John Marshall          Cecil J. Wright

  James Milling          Charles Wright

  Joseph Milling         Arthur Wrightson

                         Thomas Wrightson

—————————————————

Panel 4   

  

  Remember            

  also before God     

  those who died in  

  World

  War           

  1939-1945.          

—————————————————-

Panel 5                  Panel 6

   

  Robert Arnell          Winifred Hutchinson

  Alen Askew             Robert C. Jobling

  Sydney Askew           Edward Kelly

  Thomas W. Bainbridge   John C. Lewis

  James Burns            Ernest McGuire

  J. Rodney Cairns       John K. Michael

  Norman D. Cameron      Arthur Miller

  Robert G. Cook         George Morris

  Neville Cox            George Piggales

  James H. Crame         James Robinson

  John Crooks            Raymond Richardson

  Robert H. Daniels      Joseph Robson

  Francis J. Davison     George Slowther

  Arthur Draper          Sydney Stokoe

  Eric Forster           Robert Stonehouse

  Albert Foster          Harold Suggett

  John Foster            Hugh T.W.B. Swindale

  Norman Foster          Thomas Wilkinson

  Robert W. Gee          John W. Wilson

  Albert Grice           Ronald Wilson

  Mowbray Guy            George R. Wood

  Thomas C. Henderson    John L. Young

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