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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Tynedale
- Town
- Prudhoe
- County
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: Sunday 1st Mar 1920
Attended by: Rev. J.G. Hodgson, Hexham
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 34126
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Current location
3
Prudhoe Working Men's Club
South Street
Prudhoe
Tynedale
Northumberland
NE42 5JT
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 09532 62938
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Methodist (formerly Wesleyan Methodist) Chapel
Ovington
Tynedale
Northumberland
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Methodist (formerly Wesleyan Methodist) Chapel
- Description
- Brass Plaque with dome at centre top, on a pattress which echoes the shape. There is a wide border of oak leaves and flowers. At centre top is a cross enclosed by a laurel wreath. The lettering is sunk in casting and enamelled black using Roman capitals, apart from the quotation at the bottom, which is in Gothic script.
- Inscription
- ERECTED / IN MEMORY OF THE MEN / OF THE OVINGTON DISTRICT / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR / KING AND COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/[names]/"Greater love hath no man than this, that / a man lay down his life for his friends"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Foster, Edwin
Lyall, John
Pigg, William
Robson, George
Scott, Joseph
Scott, Robert
Simpson, Charles
Smith, Edward
Urwin, Robert
Vickers, Godfrey
See details for all 10 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 10
Served and returned: 0
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 900MM, width 600MM
Materials: Brass
- 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
- www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=8339
- Hexham Courant 6/3/1920 gives details of the unveiling ceremony
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