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The List of the Fallen in the First World War, Westwood Club (Washington,
Tyne and Wear)
Photo : Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>)
The Westwood Club, Washington, is located in Westwood Gardens, Station Road, Columbia NE38 7LJ (Washington, Tyne and Wear).
The First World War memorial in the club is a plaque of three panels in heavy rectangular dark wooden frame 1½ inches thick. On the frame above the panels are the words “Roll of Honour / 1914-1918”. The three panels are rectangular with elaborate rounded corners, each is outlined in the shape of the cutout. The two outer ones are larger and bear the names of those who served, listed in two columns. The central smaller panel names those who died, also in two columns. The names are all in sans serif capitals in black with the ranks and regiments in red.
35 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War. Of these names, 9 soldiers served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
Private Harry Chilvers. 13944. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of the late Mr. H. and Mrs. M. Chilvers; husband of Edith Chilvers,
of The Potash Farm, Kenton, Stowmarket, Suffolk. Killed 26 September 1915.
Aged 33.
Born Barneston, Enlisted Washington.
Commemorated on Panel 44 and 45, LOOS MEMORIAL.
Private Alexander Dobson. 13938. 5th Battalion the
Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 17 July 1917.
Born Barneston (Durham), Enlisted Washington.
Buried HENINEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION.
(Shown on the Westwood Club memorial as being in the East Yorkshire Regiment.)
Private James Foster. 15029. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 30 April 1916.
Born Southwick (Sunderland), Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Southwick.
Buried in NORFOLK CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT.
(This is the best "fit" for the above name. Southwick is a short
distance to the East of Washington Village.)
(Private James Hepplewhite is shown on the Westwood Club memorial as being in the Yorkshire Regiment but was in the East Yorkshire Regiment.)
Private Joseph Local. 13812. 10th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 28 September 1915.
Born Wingate (Durham), Enlisted Shiney Row, Resided Washington Station (Durham).
Commemorated on Panel 44 and 45, LOOS MEMORIAL.
(Shown on the Westwood Club memorial as being in the East Yorkshire Regiment.)
Private Charles Herbert Nicholson. 17323. 10th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Died 11 April 1917.
Born Barmston (Durham), Enlisted Washington.
Buried COJEUL BRITISH CEMETERY, ST. MARTIN-SUR-COJEUL.
(Shown on the Westwood Club memorial as being in the East Yorkshire Regiment.)
Corporal William Knox Roper. 14001. 7th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of the late Frederick Arthur Knox Roper and Maggie Knox Roper;
husband of C. K. Roper, of 24, Pump Row, Waterloo, Usworth Colliery, Co. Durham.
Died 5 July 1916. Aged 23.
Born Sedgfield (Durham), Enlisted Washington, Resided Usworth (Durham).
Buried ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY.
Private John Sweeney. 14466. 8th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of John and Mary Sweeney, of 3, Six Houses, Washington Station,
Co. Durham. Killed 7 June 1917. Aged 24.
Born Wingate (Co. Durham), Enlisted Shiney Row, Resided Durham.
Commemorated Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
(Shown on the Westwood Club memorial as being in the East Yorkshire Regiment.)
Private Robert Urwin. 15731. 8th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Killed 27 December 1918. Aged 34.
Born Burneston, Enlisted Washington.
Burued MONTECCHIO PRECALCINO COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION.
Private Robert Wilkinson. G/100013. 4th Battalion Royal
Fusiliers, formerly 13977 the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Henry and Violet Wilkinson, of Black House, Edmondsley,
Durham. Killed 18 September 1918. Aged 30.
Born Heddon-on-Wall (Northumberland), Enlisted Washington.
Commemorated Panel 3, VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL.
The
First World War Roll of Honour, - the Westwood Club (Washington, Tyne and
Wear)
Photo : Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>)
The
Westwood Club (Washington, Tyne and Wear)
Photo : Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>)