Wylam

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Reference WMO/204908

Address:

North end of Wylam bridge

War Memorial Green

Stephenson Terrace / Main Road.

Wylam

NE41 8JA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Other cross
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Cross of Gothic type, hexagonal, on tall octagonal pedestal, total height 9m. The whole stands on a stepped base 4m in diameter. Bronze plaques each 91cm high x 51cm wide on three sides of the main pedestal bear the inscriptions, Each plaque has a raised border of string pattern, and raised lettering. The plaque bearing the dedication has a wreath in half relief at the bottom. All lettering is in elongated Roman capitals, apart from the Scripture quotation, which is in sans serif capitals.
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Erected by / the people of / Wylam / in grateful memory / of those who / gave their lives / in the Great War / 1914-1918 'They were a wall unto us / both by night and day.' / I.Sam.xxv.16. / [names on 3 panels] [panel 4]- 1939-1945/[names]

WW1 Names Face 8- John Edward Adams / Joseph Forster Appleby/ John Ismay Atkinson/ Fred Bean / William Hall Bradley/ William Richmond Clephan/ George Cowings / Charles Andrew Dodd / John Dolan / James Henry Forster / William Forster / Thomas Gelson / Walter Hindley / Wilfred Hines / Frederick Hunter / Jacob Irwin / Frederick Johnson / James Leadbitter Knott/ Henry Basil Knott / Frederick Leathard / William Macaulay ; WW1 Face 2- Joseph Edward McCarthy/ William Francis McKenna/ Joseph Milburn/ John Thomas Nixon/ Gerald Paget/ Algernon George Parsons/ Joseph Pattinson/ Henry Quentin Ridley/ George Robson/ Thomas Rutter/ Charles Springett/ Robert Turnbull / Henry Turnbull/ Richard Watson/ Alexander White/ William Watson Wild/ Charles Leyburn Wilkinson/ Jack Winder/ Frederick Henry Wright/ William Wrightson/ John William Young; WW2 Names Face 3- Edward Dennis Tootal Barff/ Joseph Philip Edmondson/ Sydney Elliottt/ Arthur Herdman/ William Armstrong Hind/ Harold Hodkinson/ Wilfred Maddison/ Kenneth Noble/ John Pearson/ Manfred Revell Ternent/ Lawrence Arthur Williamson

Grade II (England)

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