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Hetherington, H., Pte., 1915

Alnwick Gazette Almanack 1916

Menin Gate

On the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, is the name of 20130 Private Henry Hetherington, serving with the 1st/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 15/05/1915.

Morpeth Herald 11/06/1915 carries a brief obituary:

Official notification has been received by his parents, Mr and Mrs T. Hetherington, Alnwick Moor, that Private Henry Hetherington, their third son, had been killed in action on May 15th. Deceased, who leaves a widow and five young children, enlisted in the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers (first line) at the beginning of the war, and went out with his battalion to the front on April 20th.

He is remembered at Alnwick on A11.01, A11.03, A11.22, in the Battalion History and in Powburn on P39.01


The CWGC entry for Private Hetherington

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk