Carole Fife has provided the following:
Although he appears on the Memorial in St John's as T. Weatheritt and in the CWGC entry as Thomas Henry Weatheritt he was actually registered as Henry Thomas and this is the name used in the census returns. He was born in 1899 in Bedlington, and in 1901 the family was living at Puddlers Row at Bedlington Bank Top. In 1907 his father Richard died and the family moved to River View at the Bank Top. Thomas became a miner like his brothers.
He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers as Private 70824 and went to France on 8th August 1918, but on the 15th of that month he was transferred to the 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London) Regiment.
On the 31st of August he was killed at Combles in the Somme valley.
The Blyth News of Thursday 17/10/1918 included a death notice placed by his mother. On the following Monday in the 'Local Casualties' of the same newspaper it was reported that “Word has been received by his mother, Mrs Weatheritt of Bank Top, Bedlington, that her son Pte Thomas Henry Weatheritt was killed in action in France on 31st August. Pte. Weatheritt worked at Bedlington Colliery prior to enlistment and was only 19 years of age.”
He is remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04 in Bedlington on B1506 as “H.T. Weatheritt”
