Corporal Morris Pringle

Corporal Morris Pringle, 10th ( Service ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died on Active Service from wounds on 7th December 1915 in France aged 20. He had been born in Whitley Bay and was the son of Jane and the late Thomas Pringle of Elm Bank Cottage, Hutton and is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension Nord. As part of Kitchener’s New Armies 10th Battalion N.F. landed in France in August 1915 and became part of the 69th Brigade of the 23rd Division. He was brought into the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station at Bailleul with a bad head wound but never regained consciousness. His Headstone is inscribed ” His Memory Hallowed In The Land He Loved”.Before enlisting in December 1914 he had been employed with the Post Office in Ashington, Northumberland.

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