Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Tynedale
- Town
- Bellingham
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: Apr 1921
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 33750
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Current location
Methodist/URC Church Hall
Fountain Terrace
Bellingham
Tynedale
Northumberland
NE48 2BL
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 83941 83405
Denomination: Methodist
- Description
- White Marble Plaque of classical shape on plain rectangular grey marble pattress measuring. The main plaque has a gable top, on the front of which a plain cross has been raised in half relief. The dedication and names are incised and blackened using Roman capitals throughout.
- Inscription
- UNITED METHODIST CHURCH BELLINGHAM/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE/ MEMBERS AND SCHOLARS OF THIS CHURCH,/ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1919/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Armstrong, Edwin
Armstrong, George
Martinson, Matthew
Waugh, John Peter
See details for all 4 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Backboard
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Grey - Tablet
Measurements: height 900mm, width 1050mm
Materials: Marble - White
- Backboard
- 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
- WMSB18.9
- Alan Grint has researched the names on this memorial in his book In Silent Fortitude, 2011 Ergo Press ISBN 9780955751098
- Illustrated Chronicle 13/4/1921 carries photo of plaque unveiled “recently”.
- www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6534
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