Private Charles Johnston, 1st/4th Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died in France on 28th December 1916, aged 27 and is buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France. He was the son of George and Sarah Johnston of Shoreswood Schoolhouse, Norham and was a native of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The photograph shows the impressive Memorial raised to the 50th ( Northumbrian ) Division of which the Battalion was part until July 1918 when it was reduced to cadre and assigned to lines of communication duties. It was erected near the village of Weiltje in the Ypres Salient where nearby on 26th April 1915 it had fought its first action of the War only days after landing on the Continent.
