Photo: Alan Hildreth
Also in Tynemouth (Preston) Cemetery is the family headstone for Thorp which includes:
Sergt. James Albert Gordon
Nephew of the above
Died from wounds received March 20th 1920
in his 28th year,
while entering burning train with two others
thus saving three trains of wounded,
South Russian Tanks Corp,
Interred Crimean Cemetery.
James Albert Gordon was the son of Francis John and Frances Jane Gordon, of 12, Denwell Terrace, Pontefract, Yorks.
He was in the 4th Detachment Tank Corps with the Service Number 76844, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and the Order of St. George 4th Cl. (Russia).
