Private Thomas Hinson 1st/4th ( Territorial )Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died at Home from wounds on 2nd January 1917, aged 26. He was the son of Robert and Mary Hinson of Lowick, Berwick-upon-Tweed and is buried in Wooler ( St. Mary ) Church Burial Ground. He had enlisted in September 1914 and on 24th December 1915 he was severely wounded in a bombing attack in France. Before enlisting he had worked on the farm of Mr Barber at West Weetwood, Wooler. The colour photograph shows the impressive Memorial raised to commemorate 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 April 1915 the Division fought its first action of the War only days after landing on the Continent.