Private Davidson Ross Burns, 2nd/4th ( Territorial ) Battalion Duke of Wellingtons( West Riding Regiment ). He was killed in France on 15th April 1917 during the Battle of Arras and is buried in H.A.C. Cemetery Ecouse-St, Mein, France. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Burns of Albion House, Norham. Originally he had …
Private John Robertson, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died, aged 33, in the 83rd General Hospital, Boulougne on 27th March 1918, of wounds received in action in France during the German March Offensive, aged 33. He was the son of Adam and Mary Robertson of West End, Norham and is buried in Boulogne East Cemetery, …
Private Robert Quinn, 24th/27th ( Tyneside Irish ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died of wounds received in action on 23rd October 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres, aged 21, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium. He was wounded by a shell in the attack near Poelcapelle . He had advanced …
Private James Waugh, 26th ( 3rd Tyneside Irish ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in action during the Battle of Third Ypres on 14th October 1917 aged 26. He had been born in Waddington, Northumberland and was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Waugh of Howtel, Mindrum and had enlisted in Wooler. He is …
Private William Muckle, 12th/13th ( Service ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in action in France, aged 38, on 21st March 1918 on the first day of the German Spring Offensive and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. Before enlisting he had been a salmon fisherman on the River Tweed before becoming a …
Private David Cowe, ” D” Coy.1st/7th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died from wounds in France on 2nd June 1916, aged 27. He was the son of John and Margaret Cowe of Main Street, Norham and is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Before the war he had worked as a baker …
Private Thomas Strother, 1st/7th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in action, aged 28, during the Battle of Morval ( part of the Somme Battle ) on 15th September 1916 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Thiepval, Somme, France. He had been born in Horncliffe and had been employed as a …
Seaman Adam Albert Wharton, Royal Naval Patrol Service. He was lost at sea aboard H.M. Trawler” Kingston Ceylonite”on 15th June 1942, aged 41. He was the son of Adam and Mary Elizabeth Wharton of Norham and is commemorated on the Lowestoft Naval Memorial. The Trawler, of 448 tons, had been requisitioned by the Admiralty and …
Marine John William Smith, Royal Marines. He was killed during the Normandy campaign on 17th August 1944, aged 22. He was the son of John William and Mabel Julia Smith of Wooler, Northumberland and is buried in Hermanville War Cemetery, Calvados, Normandy, France. He died when his Landing Craft was destroyed by an explosion off …
Corporal John Weatherburn, 9th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in action in Singapore on 15th February 1942, aged 33, defending Singapore against the Japanese. He was the son of John and Mary Weatherburn of Norham and is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial. His brothers Harry and Mossop were both captured.
Fusilier Richard Elliot, 9th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. He was captured at the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and died of dysentery whilst a prisoner of the Japanese working on the Burma-Siam Railway on 6th June 1943 aged 26. He was the son of Robert and Margaret Elliot of Berwick-upon-Tweed and …
Lance Corporal John Todd, 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He was killed in Belgium on 9th April 1915 aged 21. He was the nephew of John Todd of Main Street, Norham and is buried in Blauwepoort Farm Cemetery, Belgium. At that time the Battalion were in Sector C of the Line and were preparing …
