Photo: Geordie at War Project
In Gateshead (Saltwell) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In ever loving memory of
Pte. Henry Appleby Straker,
7th York and Lancaster Regt.
who fell in action at Flers
March 26th 1918 aged 31 years.
Interred in Puchevillers
British Cemetery, France.
“To whom may God grant light perpetual
and eternal rest”
Also Margt.Ann Straker
mother of the above
who died October 3rd 1931
aged 75 years.
Also George
beloved husband of Sarah Ellen
and son of the above
who died September 30th 1954
aged 69 years.
Henry Appleby Straker is remembered in Gateshead on G39.085
