Northumbria World War One Commemoration Project

A community heritage project based on wartime experiences of the North Tyneside and wider North-East communities. The former Borough of Tynemouth marked its First World War losses with a Roll of Honour published in 1923. This contained very brief details of some 1,850 local residents known to have lost their lives due to causes associated with the war and their service. This project researched detailed biographies of those men over 2010 to 2014, with the aim of reminding the population today of that loss and also to explore the social and economic consequences for the town and its inhabitants. Support from the Heritage Lottery Fund in early 2015 meant the Tynemouth project could expand to encompass all of the communities of the current Borough 

of North Tyneside. The project has since been engaged in building the most comprehensive biographical history possible of men of the Borough of Tynemouth known to have been killed or died in military service, the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets. Accessible via the web-link below, the project databases are free to access with all materials in relation to each man free to download for personal and academic use only.