W. Bro. Revd. David T. Youngson, PPAG Chaplain, Northumberland offers the following:
The information given below in respect of some of the brethren is the best possible conclusions from Lodge records, Grand Lodge records, Commonwealth War Graves Commission and data in respect of merchant ship losses during the First World War
1970 Hadrian Lodge
Year of Warrant 1882
Freemasons Hall South Shields
35358 Private SUMMERBELL John
Northumberland Fusiliers 12/13th Battalion
He born at South Shields. A Master Mariner he was Initiated on the 1st October 1907; Passed 109th December 1907 and Raised on the 4th February 1908. He enlisted at Middlesbrough and died on the 28th March 1918 aged 39 and is buried in Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Grave Reference IV.D.11.
However, other sources say he was in the 8th D.L.I.
He is remembered at South Shields on S86.039, S86.08 and S86.082
