Photo: B. Chandler
In Rothbury Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In loving memory of
Mary
beloved wife of Thomas Mason
who died at Addeycombe Cottages
May 15th 1915, aged 54 years.
Also of Thomas their son
who died at Silverside
April 10th 1899 aged 11 months.
Also of John Mason, N.F.
their son who was killed
in action at Arras, France
March 15th 1917, aged 23 years.
Also the above Thomas Mason
who died May 16th 1939 aged 71 years.
See The Valley Remembers; Upper Coquetdale WW1 Project; 2014; © A.F.C. Hunter; pages 57-58.
John Mason is listed in the Battalion History page 63
He is remembered at Rothbury on R24.01 R24.02 R24.04 and R24.16
