Private George Gray

Private George A. Gray, 1st/7th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died of wounds in the 2nd Casualty Clearing Station in France on 18th September 1915, aged 19 and is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France. He was the son of Mr and Mrs W. Gray of Foundry Cottages, Tweedmouth and before the War he had been employed as an apprentice blacksmith with Messrs. Taylor of Tweedmouth. The photo shows the impressive Memorial raised to the 50th ( Northumbrian ) Division of which the Battalion was part until February 1918. It was erected near the village of Weiltje where nearby the Division had fought its first action on 26th April 1915 during the Battle of St. Julien only days after landing on the Continent.