Alnwick Gazette Almanack 1916
Family Headstone
Medal Index Card
Ken Morrison has provided the following:
He was born in 1892 in Pathhead, Crichton, Midlothian, the son of James Sinton Fletcher (died 1907) and of Georgina (Paterson) Fletcher, of 72 High Street, Gallashiels and of Abbey Vale, Gattonside, Melrose, Roxburghshire. All available military records show that he used his second name (Alex or Alexander) and his family gravestone is inscribed G. Alexander P. Fletcher.
Alexander was an ironmonger when he enlisted at Alnwick in Northumberland. He landed with his battalion in France on the 21st April 1915. He was wounded near St. Julien and he was evacuated to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle where he died.
(Sources: Southern Reporter 13/05/1915 page 5, Medal Roll/Card, family grave in Eastland Cemetery and General Records Office – Death Index)
George Alexander Fletcher is remembered at Alnwick on A11.38 and A11.59, in the Battalion History and on the Galashiels War Memorial in Selkirkshire.
