Photo Brian Chandler
In Whitley Bay (Hartley South) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In loving memory of
Sgt. J.F. Murton D.L.I.
Died from wounds received in action
On the Somme Oct. 5th 1916
Aged 33 years.
Also his brother
Pte. W.D. Murton D.L.I.
Died from wounds received in action
On the Somme Septr. 16th 1916
Buried at Rouen, France
Aged 25 years.
Ever remembered.
For his brother see Josiah Finney Murton
Willie Dennison Murton is remembered in Gateshead in G39.004 page 78 and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 248
