Dearham-Plaques

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Reference WMO/171040

Address:

St Mungo's Church

Church Road

Dearham

CA15 7HX

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Two brass plaques, one for each war, each on its own wooden backboard, below each other. There is also a red leather bound Roll of Honour Book in a glass case in the Lady Chapel in the North Aisle (which is WMO/249379). The plaques are at the east end of the south wall of the nave. There is one other known Dearham Casualty, after WW2- Private Paul George Crellin (25090442, KOR Border Regt), killed in action in Bosnia 7 September 2000 aged 22. He is buried in Dearham Cemetery at Town Head (not the graveyard) with a Ministry of Defence headstone. The plaques are a set of three, another set remains in the village hall however the set from the Methodist chapel were reported for sale in 2023.
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To the/Glory of God/And/in lasting memory of the men of Dearham/who fell in/the Great War/1914-1918/This tablet is dedicated by the Inhabitants of Dearham/ [names in 2 columns]/DIED OF WOUNDS-[name]/ MISSING/-[names]; In Grateful Memory of/those who died in War 1939-1945/ [names]

WW1-Column 1- JOHN BAILEY/JOHN BROWN/JOHN OSBORNE BROWN/JAMES BRANNAN/JOHN HENRY GATE/JOSHUA KENNEDY/JOHN ROBERT LEE/THOMAS MAXWELL LITT/WILLIAM MUSGRAVE WW1-Column 2- JOSEPH MARTIN/JOHN MITCHELL/JOSEPH MOORE/FRANK NIXON/WILFRID PATTINSON/JAMES THOMPSON SCOTT/FRED SPARK/JOSEPH STUDHOLME/TOM YOUNG/DIED OF WOUNDS- ALEXANDER BELL; MISSING-Column 1-WALTER ARCHER/WILLIAM HENRY NEALEY; Column 2-JOHN SERGINSON/ROBERT HENRY WEIGHTMAN; WW2-EDWARD HODGSON, THOMAS H. JENKINSON, JANE A.LISTER/JOSEPH LISTER, EDWARD LYNCH, PERCY MOSSOP/LEONARD B. NICHOLSON, HENRY ROOK, DAVID T. SANDHAM/ SYDNEY J. WILSON

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