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The leather bound book of remembrance can be found inside St Michael & All Angels Church. The names of those remembered with honour have been reproduced here for those unable to visit the church in person. The large book, which is approximately 14 inches x 9.5 inches, features the Gilpin crest on the front cover. Each page features handwritten text with the names of 78 individuals in black and regiment in red. There is no sculptured memorial for those killed during WWII.

NAMES IN THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

FRONT COVER: Remembrance World War 1939 - 1945

FRONT PAGE: Herein is inscribed with proud and honoured remembrance the name of each man and woman who lived in Houghton-le-Spring Urban District and who died in the service of King and Country during the World War of 1939-1945.

DATE TRANSCRIBED: October 3rd 2002

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As [TOP]

Robert Ainsley - Royal Tank Regiment
Thomas Edward Ainsworth - Coldstream Guards
Arthur Armstrong - Royal Air Force

 

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Bs [TOP]

Andrew Bell - Royal Artillery
Silas Hickman Berry - Merchant Navy
James Briggs - Royal Air Force
R Brown - Royal Air Force
John Burnside - Royal Air Force

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Cs [TOP]

James Sinclare Campbell - Royal Navy
William Chambers - Royal Air Force
Maurice Laverick Chase - Durham Light Infantry
Hilary D Clark - Royal Air Force
Arthur Cook - North Staffordshire Infantry
John Robert Cowell - 6th Cameronians
Thomas William Cowler - Royal Navy

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Ds [TOP]

George Davidson - Coldstream Guards
Cecil Richards Devon - Durham Light Infantry
George William Dodds - Royal Army Medical Corps
David Dorn - Royal Air Force
Frank Draycott - Royal Air Force

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Samuel Coffey Faghy - Royal Engineers
James Fallon – King’s Own Scottish Borderers
Alfred Fields - West Yorkshire Regiment
John Fisher - Durham Light Infantry

(Lance Serjeant John Fisher - find out more about him HERE)

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Gs [TOP]

Denis Galley - Royal Air Force
Douglas Geldart - Royal Air Force
Robert Gowland - Royal Air Force
Ronald Brunton Green - Royal Corps Of Signals

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Hs [TOP]

James Hancock - Royal Air Force
Sidney Hancock - Royal Navy
William Garbutt Henderson - Royal Air Force
John Austen Higgin - Royal Navy
John James Holland - Royal Electrical & Mech Engineers
Robert Hunter - Coldstream Guards
Ernest Allen Hutchinson – Durham Light Infantry
George Hutchinson - Royal Air Force

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Js [TOP]

Charles Jane - Royal Artillery
William Thomas Johnson - Royal Artillery

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Ks [TOP]

Charles Keegan – Royal Artillary (added after the book was compiled)

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Ls [TOP]

Thomas Alfred Lauderdale - Royal Artillery
John Lawson – Royal Air Force
Norman Lawson - Royal Artillery
William Garnett Lawson – Royal Tank Regiment
Edward Lawther - Durham Light Infantry
John George Leonard - Durham Light Infantry
John Shuttleworth Lowery - Royal Artillery

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Ms [TOP]

William Baker Martin – Reconnaissance Corps (added after the book was compiled)
James McDermand - Royal Air Force
John McDermand - Royal Armoured Corps
Thomas William McLeary – Royal Air Force
J Marsh - Lincolnshire Regiment
David Bell Monaghan - Royal Navy
Joseph Nixon Moore - Pioneer Corps
John Henry Moreton - Royal Air Force

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Ns [TOP]

IGV Nearey – Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS)

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Ps [TOP]

James Palmer - Royal Air Force
Ernest Petterson - Durham Light Infantry
Cyril Pitt - Royal Artillery
Stanley Powell - Royal Berkshire Regiment

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Rs [TOP]

John Richardson – Royal Artillery
Benjamin Robinson – Durham Light Infantry
Robert Robson - Royal Navy
Lennie Albert Rudd - Royal Field Artillery

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Ss [TOP]

Edward Saxon - Royal Air Force
John Henry Schofield - Reconnaissance Corps
Edward Scott - Royal Air Force
Leonard Scott - Royal Engineers
Charles Robert Shields - Royal Air Force
Ralph Stanley Smith - Royal Air Force
Wallace Stockport - Royal Air Force
Thomas Straughan - Royal Engineers

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Ts [TOP]

Tubman John Thomas - Durham Light Infantry
Richard Wilkinson Turnbull - Royal Navy
Cuthbert John Turner - Royal Navy

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Ws [TOP]

Annie Walker - Auxilliary Territorial Service
Frederick Watson - Royal Hussars
Thomas White - Welsh Regiment
Maurice Williamson - Royal Air Force

 

 

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE NAMES

The following information contains expanded details about names found in the Book of Remembrance as found in Houghton-le-Spring’s Paish Church.

 

:: Lance Serjeant John FISHER was the son of George and Esther Fisher, and husband of Elsie Fisher. His remains were interred at Houghton Cemetery, Durham Road.
Commemorated on: [Book of Remembrance]; [CWGC headstone, Durham Rd Cemetery];

 

 

 

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