Morpeth Herald 30/11/1917 carries a brief obituary:
Signaller [sic] William J. Aitchison, of Amble, has been killed in action in Palestine. He was five years clerk with the late Mr Gibson, the town surveyor. He joined up in August of 1915, in the Tyneside Commercials and was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, and went to France in June 1916. In November of that year he left France for Salonica. From the latter place he went to Egypt in July of this year, and from there to Palestine, where he has been in the thick of the battles.
He is remembered at Amble on A13.01, A13.03, on A13.07 as Aitchison, W.T., and on A13.11
