St Patrick's Boys School Roll of Honour

Roll of Honour 1 - Taken by Tony Parrini 16 Oct 2017

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Roll of Honour 2 - Taken by Tony Parrini 16 Oct 2017

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Transcribed Names Lists Page 1 of 3 - Taken by Tony Parrini 09 Jun 2018

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Transcribed Names Lists Page 2 of 3 - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 09 Jun 2018

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Transcribed Names Lists 3 of 3 - Taken by Stuart Nicholson 09 Jun 2018

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St Patrick's Boys School Memorial installed in new St John Henry Newman School Hall - Taken by Peter Naylor 27 Jun 2022

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Introductory Panel and Portrait of Lt Colonel William Kerr DSO MC - Taken by Peter Naylor 27 Jun 2022

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St Patrick's Boys School Roll of Honour Panel 2 and Pen Portrait of Cowen Brothers by Fergus Horner, Year 8 2021 - Taken by Peter Naylor 27 Jun 2022

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St Patrick's Boys School Roll of Honour Panel 1 and Pen Portrait of Mahoney Brothers by Bethan Cameron, Year 9 2021 - Taken by Peter Naylor 27 Jun 2022

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Portrait of 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Henry Collin VC & his Scroll of Honour - Taken by Peter Naylor 27 Jun 2022

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Reference WMO/272485

Address:

St John Henry Newman Catholic School

Scalegate Road

Silverdale Road

Upperby

Carlisle

CA2 4NL

England

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Status: Damaged

Type: Non freestanding

Location: Internal

Setting: Inside a building - public/private

Description: Roll of Honour or Book of Remembrance

Materials:

Paper Paper

Lettering: Other

Conflicts:

First World War (1914-1918)

About the memorial: Two original unframed photographs and two original roll of honour panels, all approximately 50cm high by 32cm wide, plus the original Collin scroll of honour, approximately 28cmhigh x 17cm wide. These are held in cold store by Cumbria Archives who have digital reproductions available for research while the school holds framed digital reproductions (not normally publicly accessible). The memorial consists of five original items: two scrolls in modern dark-wood frames, two photographs in their original dark oak frames and a scroll of honour in a modern dark-wood frame commemorating one of the soldiers photographed . The framed scrolls, about 60cm high and 42cm wide, are believed to be a roll of honour of former pupils of St Patrick’s (Catholic) Boys School, Carlisle who served in the Armed Forces in the Great War and are listed by service and regiment on a faded background beneath a scroll with the title ‘Pro Patria’. Above this, against an outline of Carlisle Castle, a cloaked adult figure dressed in a belted white robe (possibly representing ‘Education’) presents a book (possibly representing ‘learning’) to a naked child on the right, next to a globe; to the left, next to a pile of books, another such child is holding sword by its blade (possibly representing ‘truth’. On each side of this image is a shield surrounded by laurel leaves, that on the left displays the former arms used by the City of Carlisle – a red cross on a gold background with five red roses, symbols of the Virgin Mary who was Patron Saint of the Priory of Carlisle from which the Cathedral developed – while that on the right displays the newer arms of the city, perhaps invented by mapmaker Speede in the seventeenth century and used until 1924, with the lion of England, a generic castle image, two red roses and three wavy blue lines representing the rivers flowing through Carlisle. A garland of leaves borders the left and right sides of the listing of names with another beneath the listing. The garland is surmounted on the left and right by three flowers while a seventh flower is below, in the centre. These again appear to be roses. The framed photographs are of a similar size to the two frames scrolls and are of the school’s former pupils: Lt. Joseph Henry Collin, VC and Lieut. Col. William Kerr, DSO, MC., both in service uniforms. The framed scroll of honour is about 32cm high and 22cm wide, commemorating Lt. Joseph Henry Collin, VC.

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The memorial deteriorated following two floods at the Newman School site on Lismore Place, Carlisle in 2006 and 2015. Following the latter, the building was broken into and the memorial was damaged. 
With construction of a replacement school on a new site underway, Cumbria Archives undertook conservation work on the five items and the originals are now held for safe keeping in their cold store and are not accessible to the public. Digital reproductions were made and these may now be consulted through the Cumbria Archives at their Carlisle office (catalogue reference DS 6/4). Other digital reproductions have been framed in the frames in which they were originally displayed at Newman School on Lismore Place and are now housed in the St John Henry Newman School site at Upperby, Carlisle, together with a reproduction of the scroll of honour for Lt. Joseph Henry Collin, VC and modern information panels. These are not normally publicly accessible.

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Comments:

There are gaps in the history of this memorial but it is known from the St Patrick’s School log book for 1914-1939, held by Cumbria Archives in Carlisle (catalogue reference DS6/1) that the portraits of Kerr and Collin – the two most-decorated former pupils from the Great War – were received by the school on 18th December 1920 and “hung in prominent positions”. “ A short address was given to the 200 boys present on the careers and achievements of the two men”. It has been suggested that the roll of Honour panels were received by the school in 1924 but no further details are known of this at present. 

The school amalgamated with its sister school and remained on its Spring Gardens Lane site until closure in 1968 when Newman School, a new Catholic comprehensive school, opened nearby. The fate of the panels was unknown until Head of History Sean Campbell found the framed photos and unframed roll of honour panels and scroll of honour in a store in the early 1990s. Deputy Head Peter Naylor arranged for their cleaning and the framing of the unframed items which were then displayed in the school entrance area. 

Following the damage referred to under ‘Condition’, the items were retrieved by Tony Parrini and colleagues from the Carlisle branch of the Royal British Legion and removed for safe keeping, being subsequently displayed at a temporary site occupied by the school in Harraby, Carlisle.

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Be Just and Fear Not (Motto of the City of Carlisle from Shakespeare's 'Henry V', Act III Scene II_ PRO PATRIA ST PATRICK'S BOYS SCHOOL Names listed alphabetically by regiment On a small label at the base of one of the framed boards (the other label has been lost): ST PATRICKS SCHOOL ROLL OF HONOUR Believed to be a list of former pupils and teachers who served in the Great War

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St Patrick's Boys' School Roll of Honour at Newman School As listed on boards Royal Navy - Barnes J; Royal Navy - Higgins, William John; Royal Navy - Maxwell, William; Royal Navy - O'Neil, Charles; Royal Navy - Shields, Robert; Royal Navy - Smith, John; Royal Navy - Stevenson, James; Royal Navy - Swatts, John; Royal Horse Guards - McDonald, William; 17th Lancers - McDonald, John; Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry - Brown, John James; Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry - Butler, P L; Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry - Donaldson, John; Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry - Halliburton, Bert; Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry - Parker, John; Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry - Parker, William; Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry - Short, John; Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry - Smith, Sydney; Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry - Stordy, Thomas; Royal Field Artillery - Brown, John James; Royal Field Artillery - Finn, Frank; Royal Field Artillery - Gallifer, Edward; Royal Field Artillery - Gannon, Toner; Royal Field Artillery - Kavanagh, Thomas G; Royal Field Artillery - Mullen, Arthur; Royal Field Artillery - Ratchford, J; Royal Field Artillery - Rome, Isaac; Royal Field Artillery - Rooney, Reginald; Royal Field Artillery - Spottiswood, Joe; Royal Field Artillery - Tweddle, Geo; Royal Engineers - Brown, William; Royal Engineers - Gardiner, John H; Royal Engineers - Sloan, James; Royal Engineers - Spottiswood, George; Royal Engineers - White, Charles; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Bowman, Philip; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Burgess, Alfred; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Burgess, Richard; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Chandler, Alfred; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Collins, Joseph; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Connolly, Robert Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Cunningham, George; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Dolan, Matthew; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Dunne, John; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Foster, John; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Graham, Charles; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Graham, Clarence; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Henry, George; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Henry, John; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Hodgson, George; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - McGuinness, George; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - McKenna, Michael; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders - Parker, James; Black Watch - Brannon, John; Border Regiment - Birkett, William John; Border Regiment - Maxwell, James; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Brett, Patrick J G; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Gardiner, Richard; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Higgins, George; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion -Higgins, William; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Hounam, Robert; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Mahoney, Frank; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Mahoney, Kenneth; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - McManus, Andrew; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Metcalf, Charles; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Queen, William; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Sheridan, Joseph; Border Regiment, 1st Battalion - Walsh, John; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Boyd, Matthew; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Burgess, Thomas; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Green, George; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Green, Thomas; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Henson, William (Sen); Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Henson, William (Jun); Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Hounam, Thomas; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Jackson, Wilfrid; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - McMinnis, Edward; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Riley, Ernest; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Riley, William; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Robinson, John; Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion - Rudden, Reginald; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - Boyle, J W; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - Doherty, Frank; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - Graham, David; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - McCormac, John W; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - Moses, James; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - Nicholson, Henry; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - Ronson, Alec; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - Ronson, E; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - Rudden, Bernard; Border Regiment, 3rd Battalion - Telford, Thomas; Highland Light Infantry - McIntre, Alfred; Irish Rifles (Royal) - McClusky, James?; King's (Liverpool) Regiment - Brannon, ???; King's (Liverpool) Regiment - Mason, John?; King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) - McMullen, Thomas?; King's Own Scottish Borderers - Connolly, D; King's Own Scottish Borderers - Connolly, Hugh; King's Own Scottish Borderers - Cowan, Alfred; King's Own Scottish Borderers - Cowan, Felix; King's Own Scottish Borderers - Kavanagh, Henry; King's Own Scottish Borderers - McDermott, James; King's Own Scottish Borderers - McDermott, John; King's Own Scottish Borderers - Mulholland, John; King's Own Scottish Borderers - Ronson, John; King's Royal Rifle Corps - Obertellie, Anthony; Lancashire Fusiliers - Henson, Robert; Lancashire Fusiliers - Minnis, Thomas; Lancashire (South) Regiment- Haugh, Richard; Lancashire (South) Regiment - Waters, Oliver; Manchester Regiment - Fuller, Arthur; Northumberland Fusiliers - Gannon, Chris; Northumberland Fusiliers - Riley, Arthur; Northumberland Fusiliers - Telford, Frank; Queen's (London) Regiment - Johnston, Bernard; Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) - Munday, William; Royal Scots - Cowan, John; Royal Scots - McDermott, James; Sherwood Foresters - McNarney, William; Suffolk Regiment - Fay, Thomas; York & Lancaster Regiment - McManus, James; Army Service Corps - Berry, Henry; Army Service Corps - Berry, John; Army Service Corps - Fehrenbach, James; Army Service Corps - Friel, Joseph; Army Service Corps - Gannon, Cuthbert; Army Service Corps - Haley, Joseph; Army Service Corps - Mulholland, Robert; Army Service Corps - O'Connor, James; Army Ordnance Corps - Berry, Henry; Army Ordnance Corps - Berry, John; Royal Marines - Gilbertson, John; Royal Marines - McCluskey, William; Royal Marine Light Infantry - Cassidy, James; Royal Marine Light Infantry - Cassidy, Tom; Royal Marine Light Infantry - McDonald, J;

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