Photo: Geordie at War Project
In Gateshead Fell St. John's Churchyard is a family headstone which reads:-
Sacred to the memory of
Susan Rigg
who died July 19th 1896
aged 78
For ever with the Lord
Also of Alan Cuthbert
and Reginald Merlin
twin sons of
A. St. Clair Humphrys
(grandsons of the above)
died August 1890 aged 4 months
Aline infant daughter
born and died 12th December 1894
Alexander St. Clair Humphrys
father of the above children
died August 21st 1916
aged 56 years
Gustavus Hamilton Hubert
his son
8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
died of wounds at Boulogne
December 19th 1916
in his 19th year
Also Sarah Jane Humphrys
wife of A. St. Clair Humphrys
died Dec. 31st 1944 aged 85 years
Hubert Humphrys is remembered at Spital Tongues on S108.01
