
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Roll of honour or book of remembrance
- District
- Tynedale
- Town
- Bellingham
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 33758
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Current location
Left hand one of three Rolls of honour
Methodist/URC Church Hall
Fountain Terrace
Bellingham
Tynedale
Northumberland
NE48 2BL
England
OS Grid Ref: NY 83941 83405
Denomination: Methodist
- Previous locations
- Methodist Church
Plashetts
Tynedale
Northumberland
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Methodist
- Methodist Church
- Description
- ILLUMINATED parchment SCROLL DECORATED AS BELOW, The words "Roll of Honour" at the top are in Gothic black letters with green capitals. Below them is a Union flag in a laurel wreath, and the words "For God, King and Country" in a scroll underneath. The name of Plashetts is in red capitals. The quotation at the bottom is in gold lettering outlined with black, set on a gold scroll. The names are listed in three columns in black plain letters shadowed with grey (?silver) using capitals only. The whole memorial is done by hand.. In a glazed wooden frame BORDER PATTERN OF LAUREL LEAVES WITH ROSE, THISTLE, SHAMROCK AND DAFFODIL IN CORNERS. UNION FLAG ABOVE TEXT
- Inscription
- ROLL OF HONOUR/ FOR GOD, KING AND COUNTRY/ THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 19/ PLASHETTS/ (NAMES)/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS,/ THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Armstrong, James
Armstrong, William
Beattie, William
Blaikie, David
Blaikie, John
Brown, Richard
Coulson, Joseph
Cunningham, James
Davidson, Ewan
Davidson, Jacob B
See details for all 54 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 54
Served and returned: 54
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Roll of honour
Measurements: height 3FT, width 18"
Materials: Parchment - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- Roll of honour
- 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
- WMSB18.12
- Alan Grint has researched the names on this memorial in his book In Silent Fortitude, 2011 Ergo Press ISBN 9780955751098
- www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6537
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