Brian Bouchard tells us:
'The Battalion's War Diary records that the parapet of a 'sap' had been blown down by enemy shell-fire on 5 February 1916. Private 6258 George Percy Adams was killed outright and Corporal 3027 Nathaniel Clarke Neilson severely wounded. In 'an act of considerable merit', a stretcher bearer Private 3259 C H Smith cut his way through to the entrance to the 'sap', dressed the Corporal's wounds and carried him back to safety – 'being exposed to considerable fire all the time'. Pte. Smith was not wounded but sadly the Corporal 'died an hour or so afterwards'. Both of the deceased were interred at Cambrin Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
Nathaniel Clarke Neilson is remembered at Alnmouth on A10.01, A10.03 and A10.06 and in Sunderland on S140.141
