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BERWICK-UPON-TWEED

Austin, T.O., Cpl., 1916

Photo: Brian Chandler

On the Thiepval Memorial is the name of 1207 Corporal Thomas Oswald Austin, serving with the Northumberland Fusiliers who died 15/09/1916.

In Berwick on Tweed Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:

In
Loving memory of
Jeannie Dunn Robertson
Daughter of
James & Martha Dempster
who died 26th March 1913
aged 15 months.
Also Corpl. Tom Austin
1/7th N.F., who was killed in
action in France 15th Sept.
1916 aged 22 years.
Also the above
Martha J. Dempster
who died 8th Octr. 1949
aged 73 years.
Also the above
James Dempster
who died 12th Jany. 1953
aged 79 years
Henry M. Dempster
son of the above
who died 25th June 1983
aged 72 years.

Tom Austin is remembered at Berwick on B25.01, B25.08 and B25.09 and in the Battalion History


The CWGC entry for Corporal Austin

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