A War Memorial, Hebburn Cemetery
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 4 February 2021
Hebburn, in Tyne and Wear, is a kind of ancestral home for me. My maternal grandmother was brought up there before her parents moved to Glasgow where she met my grandfather.
It’s a fairly typical north of England post-industrial town. I didn’t spot any Art Deco there, though.
We did pass a cemetery with the Commonwealth War Graves sign. This was Hebburn Cemetery. At the centre of the cemetery is a chapel in front of which lies a war memorial:-
The war memorial is a Cross of Sacrifice on an octagonal plinth. Inscribed round the base of the upper plinth, “Their name liveth for evermore.”
To the left of the memorial as you approach it up the drive is a sculpture named “Poppies in steel,” with a sign saying, “You have done your duty, to honour you is ours” – Friends of Hebburn Cemetery, September 2019.
A war memorial bench is nearby:-
I gather Hebburn’s main War Memorial is elsewhere. Looking at the aerial view in the link I see it’s actually close to the cemetery. Maybe next time we’re down there.
Tags: Commonwealth War Graves, First World War, Hebburn, Hebburn Cemetery, Second World War, the Great War, War Memorials, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII
