Edward Thirkell; Smith Docks Magazine
The photograph is from the Smith Docks in-house magazine. January 1920 page 282 Vol III and is shown here courtesy of South Tyneside Library.
He is remembered at North Shields on page 8 of N34.30 and on the Smith's Dock War Memorial N34.04
Yorkshire Regiment Remembered
The CWGC entry for Sergeant Thirkell