Photo Brian Chandler
In Wallsend Church Bank Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In memory of
Joseph Turner, son of
Robert E. & Isabella Womphrey
Died Sept. 24th 1899
Aged 7 months.
Also the above
Isabella Womphrey
Died Dec. 21st 1935
Aged 68 years.
Also the above Robert E. Womphrey
Died August 12th 1946, aged 82 years.
In proud memory of
Their son
Robert Roger Womphrey
Lost at sea H.M.S. Forfar Dec. 2nd 1940.
Robert Roger Womphrey is remembered on our List of Ships’ crews
H.M.S. Forfar
The CWGC entry for Fourth Engineer Officer Womphrey
