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Derek Johnstone and Carole Fife have provided the following:
Walter Sparks was born at Cambois, Northumberland about 1889 to parents George Sparks, a coal miner born in Cumbria and Margaret Ann Sparks (nee Barwick) who was born in Norfolk.
Note his name is spelt Sparkes in the CWGC documentation but all other records use the name Sparks.
In 1891, when Walter was two years old his family was living at 27, Watergate, Cambois.
The 1901 Census shows Walter living at 3, Quality Row, Cambois aged 12. In the house at this time were siblings Edith 19, Maggie 16, George 14 and Robert 7.
By 1911 Walter was 22, single and working as a colliery labourer still living in the family house at 3, Quality Row.
Military records show Walter enlisted at Jarrow and his father was allocated his effects indicating he was not married when he died.
Walters’s death was reported in the Morpeth Herald on 31/03/1916:
"Walter Sparks, son of Mr and Mrs Geo. Sparks, of Quality Row, Cambois, has died of wounds."
He is remembered in Cambois on C6.02
