Memorial

Stone 1914-18 1939-45 Northern Ireland Pant Memorial Garden

West Auckland

Memorial Name: Stone 1914-18 1939-45 Northern Ireland Pant Memorial Garden (W108.03)

NEWMP Ref No.: W108.03

Parish: West Auckland

Original Location:

West Auckland Pant Memorial Garden, Village green.

Which War:

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45
c. Northern Ireland.

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Garden officially opened May 2009

Materials Used:

Stone memorial, setts.

Who Commissioned:

Parish Council

Cost:

£37,000

How Money was Raised:

Durham County Council’s Urban Rural Renaissance Initiative.

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Designed and implemented by Groundwork West Durham and Darlington.

Ownership and Maintenance: Parish Council

Inscription:

In Memory of those who gave their lives in the
first and second world wars and subsequent conflicts,
that we may live in peace

Memorial Description:

Stone 79 inches wide x 47 inches deep (200cms x 120cms).

It is raked, being 22 inches high at the back and 6 inches at the front (57cms x 14cm).

The raked top bears the dedication.

Below this are two metal plaques side by side bearing the names in Roman lower case letters.

In the garden are two stone seats, 14 inches high x71 inches wide x 24 inches deep (36cms x 71cms x 60cms).

Names:

a. 71 full names
b. 42 full names
c. 1 full name.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. The memorial is in the Pant Memorial Garden, set around the disused water fountain, known as a “pant”. The whole area was redeveloped and surfaced, and includes sandstone benches and shrubs. The whole project cost £37,000, funded by Durham County Council’s Urban Rural Renaissance Initiative. It was designed and implemented by Groundwork West Durham and Darlington.

2. A comparison with W108.01 shows that there are three changes in the spelling of names, twenty additional names are added, including several buried in the local cemetery, and one name has been omitted from the earlier list – that of Thomas Smith. This may have been duplicated on the earlier Memorial, where two Thomas Smiths are shown.

3. On a visit in 2021 two silhouettes of soldiers had been added.

Sources:

Photos: John and Mavis Dixon; Claire Hall

Durham County News
September 2009 reports upgrading of garden.

Northern Echo
10/05/2009 reports opening with the story.

Teesdale Mercury
 25/02/2009 reports proposals.

West Auckland War Memorial: Opening of the War Memorial and Garden, Sunday 7 June 2009 contains brief histories of those people named on the memorial, reproduced here by permission of West Auckland Parish Council.

 

Additional Research Documents

W108.03 Dedication 2009

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Research Acknowledgements:

John and Mavis Dixon;
Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
Dorothy Hall

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Names Documents:

WEST AUCKLAND  Pant Memorial Garden.

  In Memory of those who gave their lives in the

  first and second world wars and subsequent conflicts

  that we may live in peace.

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Left hand plaque:

  WORLD WAR ONE

  William Armstrong   Thomas W. Dunn      Edward Laskey         Robert B. Shaw

  Robert Bagley       William Eales       Edward Lockey         William Siddle

  William H. Bagley   John Field          Charles Lowson        Christopher Simpson

  John Barclay        William Gardner     Edward Mason          Thomas Smith

  John Bestford       Thomas H. Gibson    Edward Maughan        George Spavin

  Wilkinson Bestford  T W Goldsborough    Thomas P. Maughan     William Tallon

  John R. Bird        Robert Hathaway     Robert J. McNeally    John Teasdale

  W Blenkin           William Heaviside   George Meads          William Teasdale

  George Bolton       John Hepple         Jonas Million         Robert Henry Thomas

  John Bolton         John Hodgson        George W. Nelson      Robert H. Thompson

  John Bowron         Joseph S. Howson    Joseph Oates          Thomas H. Vickers

  William Brown       William Hutchfield  Robert Oates          Thomas Watson

  James Campbell      James W Hutchinson  John W. Patton        James W. Wilkinson

  Joseph F. Castling  Edward H. Jackson   William J Polkinghorn Frederick L. Wilson

  Joseph Clark        John Jackson        George Rewcastle      Robert Wilson

  Norman A. Clay      John Jackson        Sidney Riley          William Wilson

  George W Davison    Thomas J.T. Jobling Percy Sanderson       William Wilson

  Harry Dobbin        Robert Lane         William Scott  

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Right hand plaque:

  WORLD WAR TWO

  Clarence Anderson   Cradoc Douthwaite   William Oates         Thomas Simpson

  Percy Anderson      Reginald S Harrison Ernest A. Postgate    John L. Smurthwaite

  Matthew Baxter      Henry C Howland     Thomas Pybus          Norman Stout

  Edmund Byers        John E. Huntington  Jim M. Raine          Edgar Stones

  George Byers        Dennis T. Kelly     George Reed           Eileen Stones

  Edgar Carrick       George E Lawrence   James Richardson      Harold Tallentire

  Robert Clarke       John Mitton         James T. Robinson     James K.Wade

  Robert Crow         John Mooney         John Routledge        Harry Wilkinson

  Wilfred Curtis      Joseph Morley       Harry Siddle          Morris Hall

  Arthur Dickinson                                              Thomas Robinson

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  NORTHERN IRELAND

  Bill Robson

NamesW108.03  

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