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BIRTLEY (Gateshead)

Jackson/Blythe, P.P., C.S.M., M.C., 1917

CLS Chronicle 18/07/1919

Photo: Dorothy Hall

Photo: Dorothy Hall

In Hermies Hill British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 11325 Company Serjeant MajorThomas Jackson, M.C., MiD., serving with the 1st Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment) who died 27/12/1917.

In Birtley St. Joseph's Churchyard is a family headstone for Blyther which includes:-

Philip Phillipson
Blythe M.C.
C.S.M. Kings Liverpool
Regiment
Their son killed at
Graincourt
Dec. 27th 1917
aged 35 years

John Blythe
Born 23rd November 1958
Died 27th February 1959
son of
Thomas Swinburne
Blythe
and Dorothy

Philip Blythe served as Thomas Jackson.

Philip Phillipson Blythe is remembered at Birtley on B127.01 as Blyth and on B127.09


The CWGC entry for Company Sergeant Major Jackson/Blythe

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