Photo: Geordie at War Project
In Gateshead East Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In loving memory of
Jane
dearly beloved wife of
Robert Lumsden
who died Jan. 4th 1929
aged 70 years.
Also the above
Robert Lumsden
who died Sept. 7th 1931
aged 74 years.
also William
beloved son of the above
killed in action Oct. 19th 1917
aged 39 years.
William Lumsden is remembered in Gateshead on G39.004 page 76 and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 289