Memorial

Wall Cremations 1939-47 West Cemetery

Darlington

Memorial Name: Wall Cremations 1939-47 West Cemetery (D40.064)

NEWMP Ref No.: D40.064

Parish: Darlington

Original Location:

West Cemetery

Which War:

1939-45

Materials Used:

?Portland stone

Inscription:

+
Here are recorded
the names of 26 members
of His Majesty’s Forces
who died in the service
of their country
1939-1947
and were cremated.

Memorial Description:

Wall,  36 inches high in the middle x 11 feet 7 inches wide with a wing 31 inches high on each side ( 91cms x 3.53m x 78cms)

The dedication is on the centre panel below an incised cross.

The names are incised in Roman capitals in four columns on the outer panels.

Names:

26 names, ranks and regiments.
See transcript.

Sources:

Photo: Simon Raine; C. Sanders; James Pasby

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Fitzhugh Collection, Middleton in Teesdale;
C. Sanders

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Names Documents:

DARLINGTON West Cemetery

 

Centre panel

 

   + 

Here are recorded 

the names of 26 members 

of His Majesty’s Forces 

who died in the service 

of their country 

1939-1947 

and were cremated.

 

Left wing   

Panel 1

 

W/O (A.G.) J.F. Armstrong     

Royal Air Force 24.7.1946  

 

Serjeant R.S. Bell           

Royal Artillery 31.8.1942   

 

S/Ldr (Pilot) R. Bickford D.F.C.      

Royal Air Force 30.8.1941             

 

P/O (Pilot) J. Body          

Royal Air Force 12.8.1940   

 

Private Audrey Doreen Coates 

A.T.S. 20.12.1947  

 

Captain E.R. Ennis           

R.A.O.C 28.2.1943           

 

Lt.Col. W.H. Anderson        

The Loyal Regiment 11.2.1944

 

Panel 2

 

Driver R.A. Fisher           

Royal Engineers 26.1.1941   

 

Lt.Col. J.O.C. Hasted D.S.O.    

Durham Light Infantry 3.1.1942   

 

A.C.I R.T. Hodgson            

Royal Air Force 27.11.1944     

 

Major H.J. Holmes M.B.E. M.C. & Bar 

R.E.M.E. 6.12.1944          

 

P/O (Pilot) J.I. Humphreys   

Royal Air Force 15.9.1940      

 

Ch.Eng. W.S. Jeffrey O.B.E. M.N. 

SS "Sam Dauntless" 20.6.1946  

 

Second Officer W.G.L. Laxton M.N.

SS "Gothic" 25.2.1940.

 

Right wing

Panel 3

 

Captain J. Lyall             

Durham Light Infantry 22.6.1940            

 

Lieut. M.D.P. Magill          

R. Berkshire Regt 5.9.1940     

 

Lieut. C.P. Muckle-Ferguson   

Royal Army Pay Corps     2.7.1945                    

 

L.A.C (Pilot) L.J. Norris    

Royal Air Force 28.5.1940   

 

Pilot Officer O. Pedersen    

Royal Air Force 25.10.1942           

 

Ord.Smn. A.H. Potter         

Royal Navy 12.9.1947       

 

Panel 4

 

F/O (Pilot) A. Stockill

Royal Air Force 22.12.1944

 

Captain A.T.R. Symonds

Queens Royal Regiment 16.2.1942

 

Lance Corporal T.G. Toogood

Corps Military Police 13.6.1942

 

P/O (Pilot) A.S. Wardman

Royal Air Force 13.3.1940

 

F/Lt (Pilot) J.T. Webster

Royal Air Force 1.9.1940

 

Private Margaret E. Robinson

A.T.S 3.7.1946

NamesD40.64   

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