Memorial

Captain R Head

Reginald Head

Source: Copyright JBE Hale

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Current Location

South wall of chancel, behind choir stalls, Hexham Abbey, Beaumont Street, Hexham, Tynedale, Northumberland, NE46 3NB, England

NY 93547 64106

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 34079
Description: Tablet with dome at centre top. The central panel is white marble, with a red marble fluted border. At the top is a laurel wreath in which is a black cross. The letters are in black Roman capitals.
Inscription: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN EVER LOVING/ MEMORY OF/ JOHN OSWALD HEAD: HACKWOOD,/ WHO DIED JULY 28TH 1914. AGED 85 YEARS./ ALSO OF HIS SON/ REGINALD HEAD, CAPTAIN,/ 1ST BORDER REGIMENT,/ WHO WAS KILLED AT GALLIPOLI ON APRIL 18 1915/ AGED 30 YEARS./ ERECTED BY DOROTHY HEAD.

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: surname, rank, date of death, regiment, place of death, forename, manner of death, age of death, relationships

Memorial

Height: 520MM

Width: 760MM

Depth: 70mm

Made from: Marble - Red

Condition: Good

http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7597
Hexham Parish Magazine June 1915 Page 6
Newcastle Journal 18/12/1917 reports proposed memorial. (Available on The British Newspaper Archive)
Alan Grint has researched the names on the Hexham memorials in his book The Faith and Fire Within, 2006, Ergo Press ISBN 0955275814