Memorial

Blyth Post Office Staff WW1 Roll of Honour (LOST)

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 84211
Description: Framed Roll of Honour (depicting the figure of Britannia holding a trident, with a lion crouching at her feet), mounted on a circular base bearing a brass plate inscribed "Blyth Post Office". In November 1917 "The staff's tribute to their colleagues" was reported to be currently on display in Waterloo Road. The teak frame had a small brass plaque attached, indicating that the timber was from the former Navy cadet training ship HMS Britannia.
Inscription: Exact wording unknown, but was described as being the Blyth Post Office staff's "tribute to their colleagues". A small brass plaque was attached to a circular base, inscribed "Blyth Post Office". The frame (which stood on that base) bore a small brass plaque indicating that the teak from which it was made was from the former Navy cadet ship HMS Britannia. The Roll of Honour itself was reported to list the names of 15 former staff "who have made the supreme sacrifice". (This was apparently a typo, as a brass plaque commissioned after the War recorded that only 3 former Blyth Post Office staff had died - see WMR 33543).

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 15
Information shown: Names
Order of names: Unknown
Additional Information: All 15 men named on the Roll of Honour in 1917 were reported to have "made the supreme sacrifice", which is contradicted by later plaque.

Placed

9 November 1917

Reported on that date as being on display in Mr Teasdale's shop in Waterloo Road.

Frame

Made from: Wood - Teak

Condition: Lost

Roll of honour

Made from: Paper

Condition: Lost

Morpeth Herald 9 November 1917 (page 3) reported that the Roll of Honour was on display in Mr Teasdale's shop.