Memorial

Roll of Honour 1914-18 Post Office Russell Street

South Shields

Memorial Name: Roll of Honour 1914-18 Post Office Russell Street (S86.114)

NEWMP Ref No.: S86.114

Parish: South Shields

Original Location:

South Shields Post Office.

In a sorting room of the general office. (Demolished.)

Present Location:

Unknown

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled April 1919

Who Commissioned:

General Post Office

Ownership and Maintenance: Post Office

Inscription:

(Dedicated to members of staff who served)

Memorial Description:

Roll of Honour

Names:

(102 names, inc. 17 fallen)

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Notes:

1. One person named on the list had been awarded the D.C.M.

2. The photo of the now demolished building comes through Janis Blower, South Shields Gazette.

3. An appeal through the local paper from N.E.W.M.P. has not provided any clues where this Memorial has gone. Also the Postal Archive have no idea what has happened to this!

Sources:

North Mail
25/04/1919 reports placing;

Shields Gazette
29/05/2012 ran an appeal from N.E.W.M.P. to ask what happened to the Memorial.

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Dorothy Hall;
Janis Blower, South Shields Gazette;
James Pasby

Research In Progress:

The names on this memorial are being researched by Peter Hoy.

Contact: peterhoy@hotmail.co.uk

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