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Newton Aycliffe Rotary Club raised funds for the new War Memorial at Newton Aycliffe. The dedication ceremony took place Saturday, November 8, 2008, and the first Remembrance Day Parade and Service took place the following day, Sunday November 9, 2008. Many organisations and members of the public took part in both ceremonies. Click on the link below to open a slide show of both events. |
Joyce and John Malcolm are researching people in the Great Aycliffe area who died in the Wars.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has kindly searched for all its entries that have Aycliffe or Newton Aycliffe connections and has given permission for this information to be put onto the website and for the hyperlinks to their search results for the people below.
Click on the person's name for further information. Click on CWGC to connect to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website entry.
1914-18 War
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1939-1945 War
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Alexander Dunn CWGC |
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| John Snowden CWGC | |||
| Edward Pratt CWGC | George Tweddle CWGC | ||
| JosephRobinson CWGC | |||
| Walter Robinson CWGC | |||
| William Scott CWGC | |||
| Edward Wardle CWGC | |||
Leslie Gilbert Scott is not named on the War Memorial, but his headstone is in the churchyard. CWGC |
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
also sent details about the following men: |
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| Thomas Butterfield CWGC | |||
| John Willie Lax CWGC | |||
| Jack Desmond Pepper CWGC | |||
| Charles Henry Slater CWGC | |||
| Harold Speight CWGC | |||
| Roland Thompson CWGC | |||
Armistice Day Service, 1955. Photograph with kind permission of The Evening Despatch. |
John Alfred Wardle CWGC | ||
| Harold Wright CWGC | |||
| Those who served | War Effort | ||
| Robert B. Crusher, 1916 | Miss M. Buckton & Miss H. Shaw, 1917 | ||
| George E. Kent, 1916 | |||
| Victor Plesket | |||
| Alan Wheadon | |||
| Maude Elizabeth Wilson | |||
| Frederick Rickaby | |||
| James Parker | |||
| Bobby Wilson | |||