Photo: Brian Chandler

The headstone reads:

In
Loving memory
of
Maria weeks
Who died Oct. 1st 1915
Aged 77 years
Ann Francis Nightingale
Daughter of the above
Died August 28th 1910 aged 40 years
James Weeks,
Son of the above
Died July 13th 1891 aged 34 years
John Hames,
Son of the above James Weeks
Died Nov. 1891 aged 2½ years
Jennie
Daughter of the above James Weeks
Died April 2nd 1919
aged 29 years
Also of Sapper John Smith, R.E.
The beloved husband of Lydia Smith
Who died at Gosforth War Hospital
March 23rd 1918 aged 28 years
Susannah Weeks
Died March 15th 1944
Aged 92 years.

He is remembered in North Shields on N34.30 page 38

The CWGC entry for Sapper Smith