St Mark's Darlington War Memorial

Profile manager: Ruth Jowett [send private message]

The goal of this project is to remember those men and women listed on the war memorial located within St Mark's Church, Darlington, County Durham, England.

The War Memorial at St Mark's Church, Darlington.

The War Memorial consists of a recorded peal of bells, along with a wooden board with three panels, mounted on the north-side wall of the baptistry at the western end of the church.

The left-hand panel contains the first block of names

• Joseph William Bell
• Ronald Bowes
• Robert Davison
• Eileen Dawson
• George William Graham
• Raymond Hall
• Alfred Raymond Hope
• William Leslie Hudson

The centre panel reads:

To the Greater

Glory of God

The recorded peal of

bells was installed by

friends in memory of

those of this church

and district who gave

their lives in the

war of

1939 - 1945.

The right-hand panel contains the second block of names

• James Jobson
• John Johnson
• Kenneth James Mann
• Kenneth Milburn
• Tom Musty
• Cuthbert Piper
• John Storey
• Arthur Tinkler
• Alan Wood

The ledge at the bottom is inscribed:

Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord.

In addition to this memorial, there is also a plaque in the chapel, in memory of George Burton who lost his life in the First World War.

Further information

• Imperial War Museum
• Durham at War
• North East War Memorials Project
• Armstrong, Craig (2022), Darlington & Teesdale at War 1939-45. Barnsley, Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Ltd.

Right now this project just has one member, me. I am Ruth Jowett.
Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!