Memorial

Roll of Honour 1914-18 Temperance Union

South Shields

Memorial Name: Roll of Honour 1914-18 Temperance Union (S86.142)

NEWMP Ref No.: S86.142

Parish: South Shields

Original Location:

Temperance Hall, South Shields, Wallis Street? unconfirmed. Off Barrington Street. (Demolished)

Present Location:

Unknown

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled 12th December 1920 by Mr. R.O. Middleton, the oldest member of the G.T.U.

Materials Used:

?Paper behind glass

Who Commissioned:

South Shields Branch of the Temperance Union

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Mr. John Hodge, a member of the Union

Inscription:

This Roll of Honour is a token of deep and grateful appreciation of the 168 members and friends of this union who served in the Great War 1914-1918, and in affectionate remembrance of the first named twenty-six who made the great sacrifice.

Memorial Description:

Roll of Honour “which has been artistically designed, is surmounted by the borough coat of arms, with the Wouldhave Memorial and Town Hall on either side, while in the centre of the panel are the names of those who served”.

Names:

168 names of those who served.
26 full names of those who fell.
See transcript of the names of the fallen.

Notes:

1. Alfred Lawson was the son of Mr. Benjamin Dain Lawson, chairman of the Committee.

2. The Roll of Honour was unveiled at a weekly Sunday meeting of the Temperance Union.

3. It is thought that this hall was used as the HQ for the Gospel Temperance Union, as it was also used as the King’s Alexandra theatre. “The Temperance people used this building as their HQ for many years” (Mark C. Robson in the Church’s Centenary booklet).

4. The building was originally a Congregational Church built in 1824 and opened for worship in 1825. It was sold to the Gospel Temperance Union after 1884.

Sources:

Shields Daily Gazette
14/12/1920 reports unveiling.

Ron Drew’s Theatre Page
For Note 3 above.

Research Acknowledgements:

Mike Mulhern;
James Pasby

Research In Progress:

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

Contact: peterhoy@hotmail.co.uk

If you know more about this memorial, please send the details to NEWMP.

Names Documents:

SOUTH SHIELDS  Temperance Hall

    

The layout of this memorial is not known.

The following has been extracted from a newspaper

Report and has not been compared with the original or

With a good photograph.  

—————————————–

  This Roll of Honour

  is a token of

  deep and grateful appreciation

  of the 166 members and friends

  of this union who served in

  the Great War 1914-1918,

  and

  in affectionate remembrance of

  the first named twenty-six who

  made the great sacrifice.

  Alfred Lawson      Robert H. Scott

  Edward Fenton      William Martin

  Robert Henderson   Harold Smoat

  Henry Wright       Thomas Quinn

  Louis R. Curtis    J.P. Johns

  John J. Tinning    John Gibson

  Edward Pooley      Stanley Youll

  J.W. Cable         Henry St.Clair

  Albert Jordan      J.G. Matthews

  Thomas H. Pilben   S. Smithson

  Richard Bond       J.W. Reay

  Charles Davies     William Scott

  Edward Brown       James Cable.

  ———————————-

  The names of those who served are not given

  in the newspaper article.

NamesS86.142     

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