BORN HULL 1880. ENLISTED NEWCASTLE. LIVED IN GATESHEAD. SENT TO THE RAGGED AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IN CUMBERLAND IN 1891. A FORMER LABOURER. HE JOINED THE ARMY ON 06/02/1901. WAS SERVING AS A REGULAR SOLDIER IN THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, ON THE OUT BREAK OF WAR. ARRIVED IN BELGIUM, ON 08/09/1914, AS PART OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE […]
5 MILLER STREET, GATESHEAD, TYNE AND WEAR, NORTH EAST ENGLAND, UK
Died on
05/08/1917
Aged
24
BORN NEWCASTLE 1893. ENLISTED HULL. NER SIGNAL MAN. JOINED THE 17TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS (RAILWAY PALS). SON OF RICHARD AND ELIZABETH HOWEY, 5 MILLER STREET, BENSHAM, GATESHEAD, DURHAM. KILLED IN ACTION ON 05/08/1917, AGED 24. BURIED: Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
Born Hull, 1895. Son of George and Isabella Simpson, of 56, Tower Street, Gateshead-on-Tyne. Employed as a Plumber and lived at 56, Tower Street, Gateshead, (CWGC address). Served in the 1/9th Durham Light Infantry. Killed in action, on 28/09/1915, aged 20. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
93 WESTBOURNE AVENUE, GATESHEAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
23/07/1916
Aged
25
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM VOASE AMD ANNIE VOASE, OF 93 WESTBOURNE AVENUE, GATESHEAD (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS). HE LIVED IN GATEHEAD. WORKED AS A BOOTMAKER. HE ENLISTED IN NEWCASTLE. SERVED IN THE 1ST NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/07/1916, AGED 25. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. UNMARRIED. HIS WAR PENS […]
