Photo: Geordie at War Project
Name on the Menin Gate
In Gateshead East Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In loving memory of
Ralph Edward
beloved husband of
Elizabeth A Fenwick
who died March 8th 1904
aged 52 years.
Also of the above
Elizabeth A. Fenwick
who died March 15th 1919
aged 70 years.
Also
Pte. Ralph E. Fenwick 1st N.F.
beloved husband of
Mary A. Fenwick
and second son of the above
who was killed in action
at Ypres in France
June 18th 1915 Aged 36 years.
Also
Mary Stephenson
daughter of the above
R.E. & E.A. Fenwick
and wife of
J.E. Stephenson
who died Nov. 21st 1924
aged 39 years
Gone but not forgotten
Ralph E. Fenwick is remembered in the Battalion History page 45