Combined War Memorial, Alston, Cumbria. - World War I Memorials and Monuments on Waymarking.com

This granite obelisk is set at a road junction south of Alston to the west of the River South Tyne. It is some 4m high, set on a square block plinth and a base of four steps. The inscriptions are on the lower, tapered, part of the monument, arranged with the main inscription facing east, the north and south sides have WWI names on them. The square base block carries the names of the fallen from WWII. None of the names are in any particular order. The whole is placed in a large clear, paved area at the road junction with a curved wall round it. There is one bench at the northern side. The main dedication inscription is:

               This Monument is Erected to the

                       Glorious Memory
                     Of Those Of Alston

            Who Gave Their Lives in The Great War

                        1914 --- 1918
                             AND
                        1939 --- 1945
              "Their Name Liveth For Evermore."

With some of the WWII names below:

                1939                    1945
                    Richard C.Dickinson.
                    Reginold L.Spark.
                    Thomas A.Armsttrong.
                    John W.Johnston.
                    John R.Shields.
                    William H.Dixon.
                    Ronald Y.Tucker.
                    Ivan Morgan.
                    Harold Walker.
                    Peter J.Playfair.

On the northern side the names are:

                    Joseph W.Collinson.
                    William F.Featherstone.
                    Ernest Wymes.
                    Robert Atkinson.
                    Roland W.Stobbart.
                    Tomas E.Spark.
                    Andrew Douglas.
                    John A.Havelock.
                    Frederic A.Millican.
                    William C.Brown.
                    Thomas Archer.
                    John Douglas.
                    Thomas E.Ramsay.
                    John W.Archer.
                    Albert E.Alderson.
                    Errington Beadle.
                    Alfred Robson.
                    Alice Renwick.
                    Robert Nixon.

                1939                    1945
                    Thomas W.Richardson.
                    John I.Bramwell.

On the southern side the names are:

                    James Bennett.
                    William J.Little.
                    Nowell Oxland.
                    Thomas Moore.
                    Joseph H.Dowson.
                    James D.Nicholson.
                    Henry Abbott.
                    William Turnbull.
                    John R.Cranston.
                    J Herbert Rutherford.
                    Herbert J.Jackson.
                    Walter Ralph.
                    M.Henry Pickering.
                    Stephen Dickinson.
                    Lloyd M.Thompson.
                    Harry J.Vipond.
                    Harold F.Walton.
                    Walter Davidson.
                    H.Dacre Dickinson.
                    Joseph Spottiswood.

Private or Public Monument?: Other Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Alston Moor Town Council Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe Physical Address of Monument: Alston, Cumbria UK Rate this waymark: Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: Not listed Website for this Monument: Not listed

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