Photo: Brian Chandler
Tyne Cot Memorial
Tyne Cot Memorial: Pauline Priano
In Blyth (Cowpen) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In
loving memory of
Robert
beloved husband of Esther Shanks
died March 28th 1910
aged 72 years.
Esther, wife of the above
died August 26th 1920
aged 77 years.
Jane A. Herron, their daughter
died March 17th 1917
aged 40 years.
Also Private John T. Shanks, 14th N.F.
their son killed in action in Flanders
Sept. 24th 1917 aged 34 years.
Robert, son of the above
Robert and Esther Shanks
and beloved husband of
Harriet Ann Shanks
died Decr. 29th 1949
aged 75 years.
Morpeth Herald 26/10/1917 carries a brief obituary:
Private J.T. Shanks, Northumberland Fusiliers, whose widowed mother lives at Claremont Terrace, Blyth, was killed in action.
