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War
Memorials Elsewhere, - Bebside Colliery (Blyth, Northumberland) |
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The
Bebside Colliery War Memorial
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Photo : Reverend Andrew Elder of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials website
The Bebside Colliery war Memorial has been at several previous locations, but is now in the entrance hall of St Benedict's Church, Bellford Court, Cowpen, Blyth (Northumberland).
The memorial is a wooden (made of Oak taken from HMS Brittania)
board with a triangular pediment, beige border and four columns of names on
a black panel.
The dedication, in gold-painted Roman lettering, is within the pediment. Each
of the four columns of names is headed by a small gold-painted cross with
a red poppy at its centre. The space underneath the dedication is divided
into four panels by flat pillars which are arched at the top. These panels
bear the names in a single column of each of the dead from 1914-18, handwritten
in gold paint using Roman capitals throughout, and at the top of each panel
is a gold-painted cross with a red poppy at centre.
At the bottom, the last two names in every column are from the Second World
War (1939-45).
80 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War, and 8 in the Second World War. A transcription of the names is on the Imperial War Museum's Register of War Memorials website.
1 soldier who served in the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on the memorial.
Private Thomas Hinson, 17444. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of the late James and Hannah Hinson, of Bebside, Northumberland.
Killed 26 September 1915. Aged 45.
Born Bedlington, Enlisted Bedlington.
Commemorated on Panels 44 and 45, LOOS MEMORIAL.
St.
Benedict's Church, Belford Court, Cowpen (Blyth)
Photo : Google Earth
The
Original Location of Bebside Colliery, Blyth
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