Photo: Geordie at War Project
In Gateshead East Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In affectionate remembrance of
Isabella Forster
died 3rd May 1931 aged 71 years
Also Thomas Forster
husband of the above named
died 22nd February 1932 aged 73 years
Gnr. Thomas Glass Grandson of the above
killed at El Alamein
2nd November 1942 aged 25 years.
Mary Rodgers Glass mother of Thomas Glass
died 21st May 1944 aged 59 years
