Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- South Tyneside
- Town
- Jarrow
- County
- Tyne And Wear
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Non-Specific Conflict
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 4 Mar 2017
Attended by: Councillor Alan Smith, Mayor of South Tyneside - Dedicated
Date: 4 March 2017
Attended by: Fr Adrian Dixon & Revd Gillian Maude - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 17802
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Current location
Underneath the original 1902 date stone
1
Town Hall
Wylam Street
Jarrow
South Tyneside
Tyne And Wear
NE32 3LE
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 32738 65352
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Plain stone tablet with incised centred lettering using Roman capitals throughout
- Inscription
- DULCE ET DECORUM, EST PRO PATRIA MORI/DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF/ALL JARROW MEN AND WOMEN/WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES/FOR THEIR COUNTRY DURING/THE MANY CONFLICTS THE/UNITED KINGDOM HAS EXPERIENCED THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD:/AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM,/NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN/AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN/AND IN THE MORNING/WE WILL REMEMBER THEM/ROBERT LAURENCE/BINYON, 1939
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Non-Specific Conflict
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Non-Specific Conflict
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: depth 20mm, height 450mm, width 600mm
Materials: Slate - Welsh
- Tablet
- 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
- Costs
Site: NIL
Comments: Funded by all the Jarrow councillors out of their budgets
Memorial: c£4,500- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- South Tyneside Council
- Reference
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