Photo: B. Chandler
H. Whitfield
Royal Field Artillery
12th April 1917 age 27
Gone but not forgotten
Acknowledgements: S.C. Knox.
Morpeth Herald 20/04/1917 carries a brief obituary:
ROLL OF HONOUR
WHITFIELD.- Died of wounds, April 12th, in Leith War Hospital, aged 27 years, Driver Henry Whitfield, R.F.A., beloved son of George and [the] late Eleanor Whitfield, of Chevington, Acklington, and was interred at Broomhill [sic] Cemetery (with military honours), on April 18th.
"By the Green of the Spring" A tribute to the men of Chevington and Broomhill who served in the First World War:; J.H. Hardy; 2004; Amble Social History Group.
Henry Whitfield is remembered in Chevington on C27.01 and in East Chevington on E7.01
