Photo Brian Chandler
In Whitley Bay (Hartley South) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In loving memory of
William Severs
died Jan. 7th 1930
Also John, son of the above
killed in action Sept. 25th 1917
interred in France.
Soldiers Died in the Great War states that he was born and enlisted in Stanley, Durham.
He is remembered in Beamish Pithill on B162.01 and B162.02 and in West Pelton on W112.01