Today marks 100 years since the war memorial was installed at Ryhope village green.

The memorial takes the form of a Doric Cross, in grey Cornish granite, standing over thirty feet in height on stepped bases of octagonal form. The bronze tablets, which are all cut and hand
worked by London craftsmen, carry the names of all regiments or units with their badges and names. It was unveiled on Saturday, October 11th 1924.

The inscription on the base reads:

To the Glory of God, and in honoured memory of those who at the call of King and Country left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom.
Let their names be not forgotten.

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Information and images of the War Memorial are from the book:
St Paul’s Church Ryhope, Sunderland: A Sesquicentenary History 1870-2020 by Dr Robert Barry Shepherd.