Morpeth Herald 27/04/1917 carries a brief obituary:
Mrs Redfern, 12 Windt Street, Hazelrigg [sic], has been notified that her husband, Private J.T. Redfern, R.A.M.C., British East Africa, died on April 12th from malarial fever. The deceased was formerly employed at Dinnington Colliery. He leaves a widow and four children.
He is remembered at Brunswick Village on B118.01, at Dinnington on D10.04 and at Hazlerigg on H28.01