Acknowledgements Margaret Allison.
Colin Boyd has provided the following:
John was born on May 7th 1894. He was working as a miner living with his father, Thomas at 42, Pont Street, Ashington when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division on November 12th 1914.
John joined the 1st Platoon, "D" Company of the Collingwood Battalion on March 4th 1915 and was posted as missing assumed killed in action in Gallipoli on June 4th 1915.
John James Soulsby is remembered in Ashington on A17.01 (A17.27) and A17.43