Photo: Angela Conroy
In Preston Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
At
Rest Here
A loving mother and father
Henrietta Dowse
formerly Clark nee Clay
died July 21st 1963 aged 72
John William Dowse
died April 28th 1969 aged 66
Remembered always by their children
Remembering
Private William Clark
2nd Batt. Tyneside Scottish
Wounded Day 1 died Day 7 July 1916
Battle of the Somme.
William Clark is remembered in North Shields on N34.77 Panel 8 and in Tynemouth on T36.14 page 7
There were two men called "W. Clark" and it is difficult to know which of these is named on N34.04, N34.16 and N34.30 page 5
