Photo: Brian Chandler
The headstone reads:
Thy will be done.
The family burial place
of
Robert & C. Gordon.
In loving memory of
Catherine Gordon
the beloved wife of R. Gordon,
who died June 16th 1903,
aged 62 years,
also of the above
Robert Gordon
who died October 26th 1903,
aged 55 years.
252 Private R. Gordon,
Tyneside Irish N.F.
27th January 1920, aged 44,
son of the above
and beloved husband of
Cissie Gordon,
also Private William Neilson Gordon,
died Feb. 7th 1936, aged 36 years.
John George Gordon
died March 16th 1952
aged 44 years.
Margaret Jane wife of the above Robert,
died ? 4th ?, aged 79 years.
Robert was the son of the late Robert and Catherine Gordon. He was the husband of Margaret Jane of 5 Maiden Street, Scotswood Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. He enlisted in November 1914 and served with “B” Company, 26th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (3rd Tyneside Irish) before being transferred to 30th Battalion. He died from appendicitis.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson.
Robert Gordon is remembered in Elswick on E35.10 and in Jesmond on J1.21
