Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 6 November 1920.

Auckland and County Chronicle, 4 November 1920.

Northern Echo, 1 November 1920.

Darlington & Stockton Times (North), 6 November 1920.

North Star (Darlington), Monday 1/11/1920 (page 5) reported: 'WAR MEMORIAL UNVEILED AT AUCKLAND. Yesterday afternoon the war memorial which been erected in the church-yard of St Andrew, Auckland, to the memory of 305 men from the parish who fell during the war was unveiled and dedicated. The ceremony, which was most impressive, was performed in the presence of a large number of parishioners and friends. A procession was formed in the Bishop Auckland Market Square, those taking part including officers of various regiments, Territorials, ex-service men, magistrates, police, Urban Council members and officials, Church Lads' Brigade, and representatives of various organisations. The Band of the Durham Light Infantry and the Bishop Auckland Town Band were present. Prior to the ceremony being performed a service was held in the Parish Church, the sacred edifice being filled to its utmost capacity. The Bishop of Jarrow delivered an address appropriate to the occasion. DEDICATION CEREMONY. At the conclusion of the service the congregation proceeded to the memorial site, where the unveiling was performed by Brigadier-General H. R. Cumming D.S.O., Durham Light Infantry. The Bishop of Jarrow afterwards dedicated the cross, at the base of which were scores of lovely floral tributes. General Cumming, in a short address, said it was a matter of great pride to him to have been asked to perform that last token of respect of these gallant men who had made the supreme sacrifice. The proceedings closed with the sounding of the "Last Post" by the buglers. The memorial takes the form of a Saxon Cross made out of selected Darley Dale stone, and was designed, executed and erected by Messrs. W. Allison and Sons, of Bishop Auckland. The cross, which is seventeen feet high, is fixed on reinforced concrete foundations and weighs, exclusive of foundations, about seven and a half tons. The names of the 305 men who made the supreme sacrifice are inscribed in letters of imperishable lead. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003631/19201101/005/0005

http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=8807 and https://www.newmp.org.uk/memorial_image.php?contentId=8807

Historic England: details of Grade II listing on 23/5/1994; 'War memorial approx 20m S of N lych gate at Church of St Andrew (qv). c1920. To 1914-1918 war. Ashlar. Curb and piers around 3-stepped square base of tall tapered cross in Saxon style, imitating C8/C9 cross fragments within Church of St Andrew, with interlace and inhabited vine scroll. Cross head has boss and armpits, and roll-ended arms. Long lists of names of dead, many of Durham Light Infantry, on stepped base'. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1209672

The Northern Echo (21/12/2015) reported: 'Bishop Auckland war memorial to be included on future Remembrance Sundays. COMMUNITY leaders have vowed to work together to ensure heroes named on a Bishop Auckland war memorial are always remembered. Helen Goodman, MP for Bishop Auckland, has said that she is willing to work with the people of Bishop Auckland and voluntary organisations to find a way of honouring the soldiers listed on the memorial at the entrance to St Andrew’s Churchyard, South Church in next year’s commemorations. The names include men from the parish of St Andrew’s Auckland, which includes the whole of what is now Bishop Auckland. Soldiers whose names are engraved onto the base of the 12-feet high stone memorial fell in the First World War and are from a number of different regiments. The weathered cross and inscribed base is presently not included in Bishop Auckland’s Remembrance Day services as councillors and voluntary organisations have tended in recent years to lay wreaths at the memorial at the town’s Market Place. However, following concerns raised by William Neilson, retired agent to former Bishop Auckland MP Derek Foster, the memorial could, in some way, be included in future commemorations. Mr Neilson, whose grandfather’s name is on the monument, said: “When I was a councillor for Wear Valley, I would lay a wreath there every Remembrance Sunday for the local authority. But last year and the year before, there were no wreaths laid by any organisation. “Councillors used to march to St Andrew’s church and have a service there. On the way into the church all the organisations would lay wreaths at the memorial – the Durham Light Infantry, the Lord Lieutenants, the local authority, the Royal Navy Association and the Royal Air Force Association. "But it faded away when they moved the town’s [main] memorial from the Station Bridge to the Market Place. Then it was decided to have the service in St Anne’s church and since the early 1990s, St Andrew’s memorial seems to have been forgotten.” Revd Canon Neville Peter Vine, of St Andrew’s Church, said he had not held a Remembrance service at the monument because he attends the service at the Market Place. However, he added he would be willing to speak to Mr Neilson about how St Andrew’s memorial could be included in future services. Durham County Council, which has no statutory responsibility for war memorials, has said that it would be willing to do the repairs needed and had enlisted the help of a specialist contractor to clean and refurbish it'. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14028131.bishop-auckland-war-memorial-included-future-remembrance-sundays/

https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/240124