St. John the Evangelist Church: Memorial Plaque

St. John the Evangelist Church: Memorial Plaque

St. John the Evangelist Church, Grewburn Lane, Lynesack: The memorial plaque commemorates 38 men of Lynesack and Woodland who were killed. It includes men from the 3 villages of Butterknowle, Copley and Woodland. It is engraved as follows:

LYNESACK AND WOODLAND

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF

Ralph Anderson
Fred Atkinson
Thomas Wm. Alderson
John James Bell
James Albert Bennett
Cornelius Brown
Ths. Christopher Clark
Thomas Watson Crosse
Nixon Dent
Andrew Dixon
John George Gargett
John Walton Gill
Thomas Gowland
Ernest Wm. Hebdon
John Hepple
George Bryan Hodgson
Ralph Hodgson
John Percival Jackson
Ernest Victor Lowe
Charles Ewd. Lowther
William Lowther
Thomas Wm. Morton
Thomas Newton
James Priestley
Harry Readman
Bert Robinson
Stanley Robinson
John Thomas Rose
Morris Sewell
Percival Cade Stephenson
Thomas Wm. Stephenson
Bertie Sowerby
Frederick Thompson
George Henry Waters
Richard Yole

3 men are inscribed at the bottom of the plaque

Leonard Appleby
George Andrew Dickson
John William Spence

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

Note:

Andrew Dixon and George Andrew Dickson (commemorated here) and G.A. Dixon (Copley War Memorial) are believed to be the same person. We believe that 58297 Lance Corporal G.A. Dickison, 12/13^th Bn., Northumberland Fusiliers died 8 September 1918 is the correct identification.