Memorial

Street Memorial 1914-18 Livingstone Street

South Shields

Memorial Name: Street Memorial 1914-18 Livingstone Street (S86.124)

NEWMP Ref No.: S86.124

Parish: South Shields

Original Location:

Livingstone Street, Lawe Top (demolished).

Present Location:

Unknown

Which War:

1914-18

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

Unveiled August 1917

Who Commissioned:

Mrs. Claud Hamilton.

Inscription:

For King and Country
Livingstone Street – Our Roll of Honour.
Please remember in prayer the following who are on active service.

Memorial Description:

Roll of Honour.

It was decorated “by deft hands” with pictures of the flags of the British Empire and Allied flags.

Names:

81 full names.
See transcript.

Notes:

1. Livingstone Street lay on the left (west) side of Baring Street, the steep street that leads up to the Lawe Top and Arbeia Roman Fort from Ocean Road. It was the fourth street from the ‘summit’ of the Lawe Top.

2. There was a vase at each side for fresh flowers were replenished at intervals.

3. Mrs. Claud Hamilton, whose idea it was, had lost her only son in the war.

Sources:

Shields Gazette
08/08/1917 reports unveiling.

Research Acknowledgements:

James Hoy Archives:
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:

The layout of this memorial is not known.

The following has been extracted from a newspaper

article and has not been compared with a photo

nor with the original.

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  For King and Country

  Livingstone Street – Our Roll of Honour.

  Please remember in prayer the following who are on active service.

  *Adamson, Robert        Adamson, George M.

  Adamson Henry.          Allan, James.

  Atkinson, Isaac         ?Earnest, Robert

  Barrow, James           ?Branxton, William

  ?Branxton, James        ?Branxton, Thomas

  ?Branxton, John         Bell, William

  ?Boyack, Anthony C.     Curry, John.

  *Cave, John Henry       Capstick, Frederick

  ?Cahill, Peter          Chapman, James W.

  Cummings, Edward        Fail, John

  Gray, Albert            *Grant, Henry

  Grant, Lewis            Gudgeon, John

  Gudgeon, Robert         Gudgeon, William   

  *Hamilton, Chas. Fred.  Hambling, William

  Harkus, Anthony         Harkus, Robert

  Hawkyard, James K.      Hogarth, John H.

  Hunter, John            ?Heather, Richard

  Hunter, Thomas W.       *Jackson, James

  Lane, Thomas            Lane, James

  Laing, Robert Stewart   Langley, James

  ?Lampen, Thomas W.      Maddison, Charles

  Maddison, Thomas        Marsden, John B.

  Main, Robert            *Morgan, Thomas

  *Morgan, James          *Moffatt, Henry

  Moffitt, ?Abington      McDermott, Henry, sen.

  McDermot, Henry, junr.  Newby, William

  *Newby, Joseph          Newby, Septimus

  Noble, William          Pearson, Joseph     

  Rix, Archie             Richie, Hamilton

  ?Rogers, William        Rogers, Alfred

  Robson, James           Sadler, John M.

  Scott, Thomas           Scott, William

  Stewart, Thomas W.      Stephenson, Russell K.

  Stephenson, John George Smith, Francis Alfred.

  Swift, William Alex.    Thomas, James

  Thompson, James         Thompson, William

  Thompson, Frederick     Todd, James

  Tyler, John C.          Wanless, Leonard

  Wanless, Alfred         Waugh, Scott

  West, Thomas W.         Whitfield, Richard

  Young, George

  

  Killed in action

  Hamilton, Chas. Fred.   Grant, Henry

  Cape, John Henry        Adamson, Robert

  Morgan, Thomas          Morgan, James

  Moffatt, Henry          Jackson, James

  Newby, Joseph.

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  The name of John M. Sadler should be John H. Sadler.

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