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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Chester Le Street
- Town
- Beamish
- County
- Durham
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- MESSRS WATSON AND BURGAN (Manufacturer)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 5 December 1921
Attended by: Mr J Caine JP, President of the Institute
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 52152
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Current location
Catalogue Reference 1979-551-13
Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Beamish
Chester Le Street
Durham
DH9 0RF
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 220 530
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Mechanics Institute
Bedlington
Wansbeck
Northumberland
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Mechanics Institute
- Description
- TWO PANELLED NOWY HEADED OAK BOARD. Formerly it 'had the figure of a soldier on the top' (now lost)
- Inscription
- TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ MEMBERS OF THIS INSTITUTE WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ (names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Batchelor, Frank
Colpitts, Edward
Cowans, Thomas
Crickmore, Leslie
Docherty, John
Ferrier, George
Gibson, George
Green, Randolph
Hall, William
Hindhaugh, Geo.
See details for all 19 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 19
Served and returned: 0
Died: 19
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Board
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Oak
- Board
- 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=6449
- Morpeth Herald 9 December 1921 reports the unveiling but with a number of names list discrepancies, against what physically exists; also Richard P Oliver is a later addition
- Northern Echo 25 November 1919 reports a plan to erect a memorial
- The 'News Post Leader' 5 December 1996 refers to the 'soldier on the top'- physical inspection confirms that something has been removed
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