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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Stone of remembrance
- District
- Castle Morpeth
- Town
- Lynemouth
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 34049
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Current location
outside Miners Welfare Hall
Bridge Street
Lynemouth
Castle Morpeth
Northumberland
NE61 5YJ
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 29543 90902
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Monument in three parts. The central part is about 7 feet high, and bears the dedication at the top, the quotation at the bottom with a cross incised between. It is flanked on either side by wings which are about 3 feet wide at the top splaying to about 3 feet 6 inches at the bottom. The names are inscribed on these wings. The whole monument is raised on a semi-circular platform made of brick and filled in with red granite chippings. The lettering is in Roman and italics and painted black. In 2005 a flagpole, which was part of the memorial and which hadgone, was replaced, the memorial tidied and a garden created around it.
- Inscription
- IN / MEMORY OF THOSE / FROM LYNEMOUTH / ELLINGTON AND CRESSWELL / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / IN THE 1939-1945 WAR / [names]/AT THE GOING DOWN / OF THE SUN AND IN / THE MORNING WE WILL / REMEMBER THEM
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Aries, Stanley
Caldwell, William
Carr, George
Cooper, Eva
Dunn, George
Eames, Mona
Eastlake, George
Foster, Colin
Grint, Joseph
Horn, Robert
See details for all 21 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 21
Served and returned: 0
Died: 21
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Stone of remembrance
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Concrete
- Stone of remembrance
- 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
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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