GUYZANCE TRAGEDY

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Reference WMO/90625

Address:

Beside Weir on River Coquet

Guyzance

England

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Type: Non freestanding
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The Guyzance memorial near Morpeth stands in a secluded place beside a weir on the river Coquet, on private land. It is a sandstone block with an engraved bronze plaque. In 1995 a wooden cross was erected in memory of ten young men who drowned in the river in a training exercise for the Rhine crossing in 1945. In 2004 a local campaign to have the wooden cross replaced by a more permanent memorial resulted in the donation of a sandstone block by a local branch of the supermarket chain Asda. The tragedy took place on 17th January 1945, and due to wartime restrictions was not reported at the time, and there was no memorial to the young soldiers until 1995. All the soldiers were 18 years old and had just returned from home leave. The plaque on the new memorial records the names of the fallen, the date of the tragedy and an explanation of the events, and a memorial poem by Charles Dicks. The emblems of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment and of the Durham Light Infantry are also engraved on the plaque. The names commemorated are LCpl M. Fredlieb DWR Pte N. Ashton DWR Pte P.G. Clements DLI Pte E. King DLI Pte K. Lee DLI Pte A. Leighton DLI Pte M.M. Peddelty DLI Pte J.W. Wilson DLI Pte R.H.B. Winteringham DLI Pte A. Yates DLI
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