Bishopwearmouth, Church of St. Michael, war memorial

HER Number:
12007

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Bishopwearmouth, Church of St. Michael, war memorial

Place:
Bishopwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Commemorative

Site Type: Broad:
Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific:
War Memorial

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Erected June 1999. "1940. DUNKIRK VETERANS ASSOCIATION WEARSIDE BRANCH. THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE ARE LEFT TO GROW OLD. AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN. AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM". From Lawrence Binyon's poem 'For the Fallen'. {www.newmp.org.uk}.

Easting:
392

Northing:
569

Grid Reference:
NZ392569

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
North East War Memorials Project www.newmp.org.uk S140.107