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BIRTLEY (Gateshead)

Toner, J., Pte., 1916

Heslop’s Local Advertiser 22/9/1916

On the Thiepval Memorial is the name of 11578 Private Joseph Toner, serving with the Royal Scots who died 22/07/1916.

Heslop’s Local Advertiser 22/09/1916 carries an In Memoriam notice which reads:

Private Joseph Toner, Royal Scots, of 44 Laburnum Street, Birtley, killed in action on July 22nd, aged 20 years. Son of Henry and the late Jane Toner, late of Felling.

He is remembered in Birtley on B127.01 and B127.09 and in Felling on F32.06


The CWGC entry for Private Toner

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