Photo: Brian Chandler
The headstone reads:
To the memory of my dear husband
William Middleston Kay,
May 22nd 1880? – July 10th 1934
Also our dear son Alan,
Oct. 31st 1915 – July 20th 1940
Also our dear son Cyril,
May 18th 1918 – lost at sea
on active service Sept. 1943
And Mabel, beloved wife of W.H. Kay
May 5th 1882 – Oct. 11th 1945.
Alan Kay was born on the 31st October 1915. He was the son of William H. Kay and Mabel Kay, [born 4th May 1882], of North Shields.
He was in the 233rd Field Company, Royal Engineers. Service nu 1896425 rank Sapper.
Alan was residing at 11 Ancroft Avenue, Tynemouth, Northumberland, with his widowed mother Mabel in 1939. He was a Clerk in the Tynemouth Borough's Treasurer department before enlisting.
Alan Kay is remembered in North Shields on N34.09
