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GATESHEAD

Hume, N.V., Pte., 1916

Photo: Geordie at War Project

In Gateshead (Saltwell) Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave with a private headstone of 3549 Private Norman Victor Hume serving with the 1st/6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers who died 06/10/1916.

The headstone reads:-

In
Loving Memory
of
Pte. Norman Victor Hume
who died October 6th 1916
from wounds received in France
Aged 19 years.
"Through the Cross to the Crown"
also Maria M. Hume
grandchild died in infancy.
Also of Maria, the beloved wife of
Robert Hume,
who died July 13th 1918
aged 58 years.
At rest


The CWGC entry for Private Hume

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