Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Allegory (eg: Victory)
- District
- Blyth Valley
- Town
- Cramlington
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Post-1945 war or conflict, Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
- Maker
- Miss Margaret Wrightson of Neasham Hall, Darlington and Kensington (Designer)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 17 September 1922
Attended by: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Scott of Newton House, Lesbury - Dedicated
Date: 17 September 1922
Attended by: Dr Wild, Bishop of Newcastle - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 33579
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Current location
Low Main Place
Cramlington
Blyth Valley
Northumberland
NE23 6QJ
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 26646 76951
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Small figure of St George in armour with head bowed, on tapering shaft and octagonal plinth on broad square base. All lettering in Roman capitals.
- Inscription
- Front: 1914/ 1919 Around plinth: THEIR/ NAMES/ SHALL/ LIVE/ FOREVER/ IN/ HONOUR. & GLORY/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Absalom, Matthew
Allan, Frank Cecil
Allan, Tr
Ammeonans, Jj
Anderson, J G
Anderson, T
Angus, Edward
Appleby, R
Archibald, A
Archibald, Edward
See details for all 209 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 152
Served and returned: 0
Died: 152
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, rank, regiment
Order of information: regiment THEN surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 55
Served and returned: 0
Died: 55
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, rank, regiment
Order of information: regiment - Post-1945 war or conflict
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, rank, year of death
Order of information: Undefined - Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, year of death, rank
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: height 4200MM
Materials: Granite
- Memorial
- Listing information
- WAR MEMORIAL IN VILLAGE SQUARE
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Cramlington
- WMO ID: 238296
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 20-02-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2007 Sword Missing- replaced free of charge by the firms of Bart Endean and Wroughtweld; 2014- Cleaned and renovated and missing letters replaced by Bart Endean Memorial Company, also the WW1 name of R G Pattison, who was shot at dawn, was added
- Costs
Comments: Total cost of £770
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- Blyth Valley District Council, in succession to Cramlington Urban District Council
- Reference
- www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6842
- www.cramlingtontowncouncil.gov.uk/service/war-memorials/
- Morpeth County Library- Frith collection of photographs shows the monument much more enclosed by a high clipped hedge and shrubs
- The Journal 2 April 2008 regarding the free repair of the sword
- The Journal 24 March 1994, regarding adding the Northern Ireland Name
- Morpeth Herald 21 November 1919, 23 September 1921 and 18 September 1922
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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