![]() ![]() Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival materialĭURHAM Durham School. A former pupil, killed on the Somme, was poet William Noel Hodgson. The papers are in the Borthwick Institute.Ħ. The design of the chapel was won in an architectural competition. The stone laying ceremony was carried out on the same day as the school prizes were presented.ĥ. The hyphen between the years is sometimes replaced with a cross – there appears to be no common pattern to that aspect of the engraving. ![]() Each section of names is head with “Pro Patria”, followed either by MCMXIV-XVIII, (1914-19) or MCMXXXIX-XLV (1939-45). They are engraved in alphabetical order, starting from the North-west pillar and proceeding in a clockwise direction to the South-west pillar. Those names for the First World War are engraved on a series of eight pillars, and those for the Second World War were added above them. The building was to have been twice as long, but funds did not permit.ģ. They were originally made of wooden railway sleepers, but these have been replaced with concrete in memory of those who died in 1939-45. The 98 steps leading up to the chapel represent the number of the fallen in 1914-18. ![]()
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