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The War Memorial Plaque in the Bank Head Independent Methodist Church, Fence
Houses (Co. Durham)
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Photo : Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>)
The Bank Head Independent Methodist Church, Fence Houses, is located on Cross Street, - which branches off Front Street (the A1052). Cross Street itself is a short no-through road.
Inside the church is a brass plaque which commemorates the members of the church who lost their lives in the First World War. Only two men are commemorated, both soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment and the two of them being brothers.
We are very grateful to Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>) for photographing this memorial plaque.
Private Arthur Knighton. 19542. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 5 January 1918.
Born Bank Head (Durham), Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Fence Houses.
Buried RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND.
Lance Corporal George Knighton. 18821. 2nd Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. Margaret Knighton, of 7, John St., Bank Head,
Fence Houses; husband of Margaret Knighton, of Hawthorne Hythe, Easington
Colliery, Co. Durham. Killed 2 April 1917. Aged 26.
Born Newbottle (Durham), Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Fence Houses.
Commemorated on Bay 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
(From the 1911 Census, Arthur William Knighton was born ca. 1897 and worked in a brickworks (aged 14). George E Knighton was a coal miner. Both were the sons of Margaret Jane Knighton.)
The
Bank Head Independent Methodist Church, Fence Houses (Co. Durham), - Cross
Street on the left
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The
Bank Head Independent Methodist Church, Fence Houses (Co. Durham), - Cross
Street behind it.
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