Photo: Brian Chandler

In Wallsend Church Bank Cemetery is a headstone which reads:

In
Loving memory of
John
the beloved husband of
Dorothy High,
Skipper in the R.N.R. who died at sea
in the execution of his duty
while clearing a minefield in the
approaches to Archangle,
August 7th 1916, aged 48 years.
Also John William, their son
who died in infancy.
Also the above
Dorothy High
who died February 12th 1948
aged 75 years.

Also William Winder
beloved husband of
Mary Jane Winder
who died September 14th 1930
aged 87 years.Also the above Mary Jane Winder
who died February 20th 1943
aged 93 years.

John High is remembered in Tynemouth on T36.14 page 13 and in Wallsend on W7.04 and W7.19 page 16 and on our List of Ships’ crews

The wreck of H.M. Trawler John High
The CWGC entry for Skipper High