Menin Gate Memorial
John Taylor and Ann Norman have submitted the following: ,
Henry McPhearson had been shown in 1911 at The Blacking, Eighton Banks, with his parents and five brothers and sisters aged from 22 to 11. He was a stone putter and was 20 years old. The Blacking or The Blacking Factory as on the 1901 census was on a plot behind Rockcliffe Way just north of Walmer Terrace and is now a private garden. In 1912 he married Jane and they lived at 3 Greenwells Buildings, Wrekenton. Jane was at 26 Mansfield Street Gateshead when she received news of a war pension for herself and their daughter.
Henry McPhearson, as his name was normally written, was in the 10th battalion of the DLI, number 14090. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 31st July 1915.
