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EASINGTON LANE

Thompson, F., Cpl., 1915

Photo: Dorothy Hall

In (Hetton) Easington Lane Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave with a private headstone of 22/1282 Corporal Frederick Thompson serving with the 22nd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers who died 03/04/1915.

The headstone reads:-

in
loving memory of
Corporal
Frederick Thompson
3rd T.S.
dearly beloved son of
John & Jane Ann Thompson
of Lyons Colliery
who died in 1st Northern
General Hospital Newcastle-upon-Tyne
3rd April 1915
aged 22 years

He did his duty His reward with God

Also Pte. William G. Thompson
25 Batt. A.I.F.
dearly beloved son of the above
who died (unreadable)

Frederick Thompson is remembered at Easington Lane on E71.01


The CWGC entry for Corporal Thompson

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