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The
Bede Collegiate School, Sunderland, War Memorial
Photo : James Pasby of the North
EastWar Memorials Project website
]Sunderland Higher Grade School opened in 1890 near the West
Park. In 1905 the Higher Grade School was re-organised as a Secondary School,
under the control of a Board of Governors. It was renamed Bede Collegiate
School.
The school soon outgrew its original premises and in 1927 the foundation stones
were laid for new school buildings on Durham Road. The new premises were officially
opened on 19 October 1929.
The First World War Memorial for past pupils of the Bede Collegiate School was moved to the Beded School (now the Bede Cntre), Durham Road, Humbleton, Sunderland.
The memorial contains five bronze panels in an oak frame, with the commemorated names listed in two columns in each frame.
152 names of Old Boys (and 1 Master) are commemorated on the memorial.
3 of the names commemorated are those of Yorkshire Regiment soldiers.
Private Charles Richard Boustead. 27288. 2nd Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Joseph and Georgina Boustead, of West View, Low
Moorsley, Hetton-le-Hole, Co. Durham. Killed 17 August 1916. Aged
18.
Born Ryton-on-Tyne (Northumberland), Enlisted Morpeth.
Commemorated on Panels 44 and 45, LOOS MEMORIAL.
2nd Lieutenant Eric Loftus Perris. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Died 27 September 1916.
Buried BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT.
The following biographical notes are from Robert Coulson's Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Middlesbrough man Eric Perris first served in the ranks of the West
Yorkshire regiment and when commissioned joined the 4th Yorkshires in the
Ypres Salient in the spring of 1916.
The battalion moved down to the Somme later in the year and spent late August
and early September in training at Millencourt.
On September 14th 2nd Lt Perris and the battalion attacked between High Wood
and Martinpuich being relieved on September 19th, “All utterly spent
and weary”.
On the night of September 26th the battalion assembled for an attack towards
the village of Flers. The attack went in at
11-00pm but due to a mix up in orders the other battalions detailed for the
action didn’t move up with the 4th Battalion leaving them exposed to
enfilade fire into their flanks.
2nd Lt Eric Loftus Perris was killed in this action in the early hours of
September 27th 1916."
Private Harold Peterson. 2407. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 1 May 1915.
Born Sunderland, Enlisted Northallerton, Resided Sunderland.
Commemorated on Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
(Harold Peterson is also commemorated in the 3rd
Draft Roll of Honour 1914-18 July 1915 Bede Collegiate School. This document
only commemorates Old Boys of the college who lost their lives up to July
1915 in the First World War. 9 names are commemorated as having died, and
5 as being missing.)
The
Bede Collegiate School, Sunderland,in 1935
Photo : Durham
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