Thomas Gelson
Morpeth Herald 21/09/1917 carries the following:
Mr and Mrs T. Gelson, Tower Lane, Alnwick, have received information that their only son, Private Thomas Gelson, late of the Army Service Corps, is missing in France.
Morpeth Herald 26/10/1917 carries a brief obituary:
Mr and Mrs T. Gelson, Ogle Terrace, Alnwick, have received news that their only son, Private Thomas Gelson, has been killed in France by shrapnel shell.
Wylam War Memorial Project has studied this story and their entry is attached below.
Thomas Gelson is remembered at Alnwick on A11.01, A11.03, A11.09 page 11, A11.16, A11.21 and in A11.56 page 31 and in Wylam on W73.01 and W73.02