“It has often occurred to me that something should be undertaken to perpetuate the memory of so many of our gallant friends and colleagues from the N.E.R. who have made the great sacrifice for freedom… 1,745 is the sad total shown in the current issue of our Magazine, in killed alone. A small sum subscribed by each of the employees on our vast system would, I think, realise sufficient to erect a fitting tribute to our lost fellow-workers. How about a memorial placed at a good centre like York?“ (Mr. F. Ascough, Traffic Foreman, Hartlepool, January 1919 in a letter to the North Eastern Railway Magzine)1
The North Eastern Railway did, of course, erect a memorial to its employees who lost their lives during the First World War.
