Friday 9 November 2018

Saltwell Park 2018 - Field of Remembrance

Saltwell Park
Field of Remembrance 2018
To commemorate the end of the Great War, the North East War Memorials Project organised a series of events which brought together the communities of the North East with representatives from Ypres, Somme and Arras.

In Saltwell Park a tree was planted together with soil from the battlefields of the Somme and Passchendaele .
 
 
Saltwell Park
Field of Remembrance 2018
WW1 Commemoration Tree
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Saltwell Park
Field of Remembrance 2018
Pte Matthew Stephenson 8 DLI

In Memory of Private Matthew Stephenson
8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Lost as a POW on SS Scillin
14th November 1942
 
 
Commemorated on the  Alamein Memorial