How would you describe the memorial and its ornamentation?
Two-light stained glass window of contemporary style. Depicts at top the Victoria Cross, the Badge of the Durham Light Infantry and a heart pierced with a sword. At the base of the left-hand window is a terraced street in Newcastle with the Tyne Bridge in the background.
The bridge was built between 1925 and 1929 when Adam Wakenshaw was growing up and it was a new landmark on the Quayside. A silhouette of St Mary's spire, where Adam was baptised and married is included, as is a map of the area where he fought with the DLI. It depicts the North African coastline, along with the location of Mersa Matruh and El Alamein.
The top of the left-hand light contains the colours seen on the horizon at sunrise, the time of day when the attack on Mersa Matruh took place. Moving across to the right-hand light, the cross originally placed on Adam Wakenshaw's grave is depicted. Bougainvillea and white roses, the flowers that decorated his two-pounder gun in El Alamein Cemetery, are also shown.
The motto of the 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry is also included: "Be FAITHFUL until death and I will give a crown of LIFE" (Rev 2:10).. The Window commemorated Adam Wakenshaw's life and sacrifice , telling tells his story from humble beginnings in Newcastle, to his death in North Africa.