Memorial
Houghton-le-Spring Grammar School - WW2 and Spanish Civil War
Current Location
In a quadrant garden, which is to be transformed into a Garden of Remembrance for departed students of the school. As it is in a quadrant and attached to the exterior wall, to which there is no public access. It also means that it is quite safe from harm, Kepier Academy, Dairy Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, DH4 5BH, England
OS Grid Reference
NZ 33793 49535
Names listed on this memorial
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- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 71195
- Description
- Brass Plaque with dome at centre top. There is a raised border. At centre top is the school badge. The names are listed in three columns. All lettering is in raised and burnished sans serif capitals.
- Inscription
- Houghton-le-Spring / Grammar School./In honoured memory / of the old boys of / this school who fell / in the World War / 1939-1945./[names]/At the going down of the sun and in / the morning, we will remember them
- War
- Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
- Number Commemorated
- 1
- Died
- 1
- Information shown
- surname, initials of forenames
- Order of names
- surname
- War
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Number Commemorated
- 32
- Died
- 32
- Information shown
- surname, initials of forenames
- Order of names
- surname
Components
- Plaque
Made from: Brass
Condition: Good