Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Tynedale
- Town
- Hexham
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 3rd October 1920
Attended by: LT COL J RIDLEY ROBB
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 34102
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Current location
The right hand plaque of two to the left of the pulpit.
Trinity Methodist Church
Beaumont St
Hexham
Tynedale
Northumberland
NE46 3LS
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 93501 63975
Denomination: Methodist
- Description
- Brass Plaque on oak wood pattress. There is a wide decorated border of vine leaves and grapes. The names are listed in two columns in black Roman capitals.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE/ FOLLOWING MEN OF THIS CHURCH WHO GAVE/ THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES)/ FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Alexander, Benjamin D
Armstrong, Ernest
Barnfather, Nevison G
Boustead, George W
Dodd, William
Dodds, James W
Elliott, Gladstone G
Forster, G Christopher
Hetherington, Walter
Iveson, Frank T
See details for all 28 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 28
Served and returned: 0
Died: 28
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 580MM, width 675MM
Materials: Brass - Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Plaque
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- WMSH51.9
- Hexham Courant 9/10/1920 reports unveiling.
- Hexham Trinity Methodist Church 1887-1987 (booklet by Nan Garbutt)
- www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7599. This page also has a digitised copy of the Order of Service for the unveiling. On the back page of that is a Roll of Honour of those who served.
- Alan Grint has researched the names on the Hexham memorials in his book The Faith and Fire Within, 2006, Ergo Press ISBN 0955275814
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