Photo: Geordie at War Project

In Gateshead (Saltwell) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:

In
Loving Memory
of
Mabel
dearly beloved and only daughter of
Joseph & Frances Statters
who died May 25th 1914,
in her 21st year.
Also Harold,
youngest son of the above
who lost his life at sea, December
7th 1918 on H.M.S. Duchess of Kent,
Aged 19 years and 9 months
Also the above
Joseph Statters,
who died February 3rd 1940
aged 78 years.
Also the above
Frances Statters
who died March 25th 1944
aged 77 years.

Acknowledgements: Barney Rice

Harold Statters is remembered in Gateshead on G39.004, in Bensham on B134.02 and on our List of Ships’ crews

Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy and Dominion Navies.
The CWGC entry for Signalman Statters