De Ruvigny Roll of Honour Vol 2 page 145
Photo: Brian Chandler
Also in St. Andrew's and Jesmond Cemetery is a headstone which reads:
In loving memory of
our dear mother
Kate Rowley
who died July 1st 1902
aged 40 years
Rest in peace.
Also of Robert Gray
beloved husband of
Eleanor Gray who was killed in France on 3rd
March 1916 aged 34 years.
Son-in-law of the above.
Robert Gray was born on the 1st September 1882 at Newcastle, he was the eldest son to George Gray, Engineer, and his wife Martha, daughter of John Johnson.
He was educated at Newcastle and subsequently was employed in the Cloth Industry.
Robert married at St Aidan's Church in Gateshead on the 1st February 1901, Eleanor, (2 Northbank Terrace, Kelvinside, North Glasgow), daughter of Charles John Rowley. They had a son John Robert born on the 4th May 1902.
He enlisted on the 1st September 1914, and was sent to France on the 4th December 1914.
He was killed in action on the 2nd/3rd March, 1915, being hit by a fragment of a shell, after the bayonet charge in which the Gordons took the International trench from the Germans.
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He is remembered in Newcastle on NUT045
