Memorial

Roll of Honour 1914-18 Working Men’s Club

Evenwood

Memorial Name: Roll of Honour 1914-18 Working Men's Club (E69.03)

NEWMP Ref No.: E69.03

Parish: Evenwood

Original Location:

Working Men’s Club, 9 Manor Street, Evenwood, DL14 9QB

Which War:

1914-18

Materials Used:

Paper behind glass in wood frame.

Inscription:

Evenwood
Workmen’s
Club
Roll of Honour.

Their lot the glorious price to pay
Ours to record with grateful pride
That Freedom lives on earth today
Because they died.

Memorial Description:

Roll of honour behind glass in wood frame.

The frame has an elaborate top which incorporates a badge carved in half relief and pilasters at the sides.

The dedication is in the centre, with the quotation inside a laurel wreath.

Around the edge are ten photographs.

Names:

10 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The Evenwood Working Men’s Club presented a silver tea pot to Bombardier Frederick Dunn, who survived the war. This was in recognition of his being awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the battlefield on 1st October 1918. The teapot is now held by a nephew. Frederick Dunn was brother to Thomas Henry Dunn

Sources:

Photo: Kevin Richardson

Source of quotation
Their lot the glorious price to pay . . .” (Not ascertained)

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Kevin Richardson

Research In Progress:

The names on the Evenwood WW 1 memorial have been researched by Kevin Richardson in his book Evenwood Remembers.

The names on the Evenwood WW 2 memorial have been researched by Kevin Richardson in his book Evenwood Remembers Once Again

Contact: knrichardson53@gmail.com

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Names Documents:

EVENWOOD  Working Men’s Club

  Evenwood

  Workmen’s

  Club

  Roll of Honour.

Their lot the glorious price to pay

Ours to record with grateful pride   

That Freedom lives on earth today    

Because they died.

——————————————————

Names starting from top left and going anti-clockwise.

  Thomas Dunn  

  David Baister

  James Heseltine

  Mark Middlemas

  William Carrick Jnr.

  John H. Raine

  Wallace Featherstone

  John Maughan

  Andrew  Lynas

  William  Gray

NamesE69.03   

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