Alnwick Gazette Almanack 1918
Soldiers Died in the Great War states that he was born in Greenock, enlisted in Redcar and lived in Alnwick.
William McFadden is remembered in Alnwick on A11.01, A11.03, A11.09 page 16 (which gives his date of death as 21/08/1915) , A11.21 and in the Alnwick Gazette Almanack