Photo : Dr Elizabeth Ashton
Original Grave Marker
CWGC Headstone
Medal Index Card
John Walter Ashton was born in Richmond, North Yorkshire, on the 10th November 1882, to George and Margaret Ashton née Prest of Railway Cottage, Saint Martins, Richmond, Yorkshire. They were married in 1881.
John was a resident in New York Village, North Shields, when he joined the 18th Battalion (Pioneers) Northumberland Fusiliers, his service number was 18/937. He was boarding at 8 Mafeking Terrace, New York, Northumberland in 1911. He was a Grocers assistant at Harbottle's Grocery Store.
John was killed by a rock fall whilst tunnelling on the 7th September 1916.
Photographs of him, his original wooden grave marker and his CWGC headstone in Flatiron Copse Cemetery are shown here.
Acknowledgements: Dr. Elizabeth Ashton
John Walter Ashton is remembered in New York on N53.02 and N53.03 and at Newcastle in NUT075 on page 116 and 170.
