Saturday, 12 November 2016

Remembrance 2016 - TS Jesmond URC

Tyneside Scottish Branch Royal Artillery Association act remembrance at Jesmond United Reformed Church's Great War Memorial.

The Jesmond United Reformed Church is the location where the 4th Battalion Tyneside Scottish (23rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers) was laid up after the First World War.

Tyneside Scottish Branch RAA
Jesmond United Reformed Church

Great War Memorial
Jesmond United Reformed Church

A plaque in the church commemorates Mr JR Hall, a prominent member of the Tyneside Scottish Committee in WW1 who would subsequently become Honorary Colonel TS. In 1939, on the outbreak of the Second World War, it was Colonel Hall who petitioned to have the Tyneside Scottish title revived.

Colonel  JR Hall Commemoration Plaque
Jesmond United Reformed Church