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Newspaper Supplement 1914-18 Courant

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H51.51

Place

HEXHAM

Original Location

Hexham Courant

Which war

1914-18

Memorial Description

Newspaper Supplement of A1 size. There is a double line border culminating in a shield in each corner. The dates are contained in a swag below the title. Names are listed in two columns, in typescript using Times Roman lettering.

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Hexham�s Roll of Honour
1914-1918
�Let Not Their Memory Fade�
Relatives and Friends are requested to intimate to Mr. John A. Baty, the Hon. Sec., Hexham War Memorial Committee, or to Mr. M. Green any misdiscription or omission in the above.

Names

216 Names, Addresses, Unit of Service, Date of Death and Age.
See transcript.

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War Memorial Committee

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Supplement to "Hexham Courant" Saturday, 01/11/1919.

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Research acknowledgements

Colin Dallison

Research In Progress

Alan Grint has researched the names on the Hexham memorials in his book The Faith and Fire Within, 2006, Ergo Press ISBN 0955275814 Contact:-Cogito books 01434 602555

Newspaper Supplement 1914-18 Courant (H51.51)

HEXHAM Hexham Courant

   Hexham’s Roll of Honour

   1914,-1918,

   “Let Not Their Memory Fade”

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Left hand column

   Name Address Unit of Service Date of Death Age

   Abbott, Harry, Foundry Cottages, 8th Borderers, July 14/1916, 28

   Abbott, Tom, Foundry Cottages, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 20

   Abbott, Fred, Foundry Cottages, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, June 14/1918, 25

   Alder, William, Eilansgate Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, May 27/1918, 37

   Allen, William, Haugh Lane, 25th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 14/1917, 39

   Allgood, Bertram, The Hermitage, Royal Irish Rifles, Dec. 7/1914, 40

   Archer, John William, Westbourne Grove, London Rifles, July 25/1918, 27

   Armstrong, Ernie, Burswell Aveue, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 19

   Atkinson, Arthur, East Gate, Sherwood Foresters, Oct.4/1917, 28

   Atkinson, Rollo Ed., Eilansgate House, Durham Light Infantry, Feb.20/1916, 24

   Addison, Alfred, Back Street, Duke of Wellington, July 4/1916, 34

   Alexander Benjamin, Hextol Terrace, Australian Light Horse, Aug. 9/1916, 28

   Banks, James William, Dean Street, King’s Royal Rifles, May 25/1918, 25

   Bathgate, Victor, Dean Street, 1st Royal Scots, April 18/1917, 20

   Barnfather, Nevison Charles, Brookside, Royal Fusiliers, Feb.17/1917, 31

   Baty, Edward Jos., Quatre Bras, 1st Gordon Highlanders, Aug. 24/1918, 23

   Baty, Ernest, Leazes Crescent, 5th Royal Engineers, Sept.26/1917, 25

   Baty, John Jos., Jubilee Buildings, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Nov. 2/1918, 28

   Bell, Henry Hogarth, Summerrods, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 20

   Bell, James, East Gate, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 30

   Bell, John, Tyne Green, 2nd Durham Light Infantry, Jan. 19/1916, 29

   Bell, Walton, Tyne Green, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Oct.9/1917, 33

   Blackburn, Edward, Hencotes, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, June 17/1917, 25

   Blackburn, Robert, Gilesgate, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 22

   Boswell, Joseph, Kingsgate Terrace, 7th North Staffordshires Aug.26/1918, 23

   Baty, Ernest Temperley, Tynedale Terrace, Royal Navy Reserve Feb. 3/1915, 27

   Bell, Joseph, Cecil Terrace, Canadians, June 3/1916, 34

   Boustead, George William, Back Street, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Nov. 1916, 21

   Brooks, Richard, Prior Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 27

   Browne, Harry Harvey, Wentworth Place, 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, April 11/1918, 30

   Brown, Hugh, Quarry House, 15th Lancashire Fusiliers, May 28/1918, 22

   Burn, Thomas, Kingsgate Terrace, Canadians, Feb.2/1919, 31

   Burn, Thomas William, Crescent Avenue, 10th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 25/1916, 23

   Bell, Edward S., East Gate, 6th Durham Light Infantry, Dec. 5/1915, 27

   Brown, William A., Hencotes, 6th Durham Light Infantry, Oct. 13/1917, 22

   Baty, James, 12, Gilesgate, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, May 27/1918, 24

   Cathrea, Thomas, Prior Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 8/1916, 22

   Charlton, John Ed., Tyne Green, Nurseries, R.G.A., Oct. 11/1917, 29

   Charlton, Louis, Burnland Terrace, Royal Navy Reserve, August 1917, 30

   Charlton, William A., Orchard Cottages, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Nov. 15/1916, 37

   Chrisp, Thomas, The Abbey, 8th Durham Light Infantry, June 22/1917, 24

   Cooper, William I., Hall Gates, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 44

   Conkleton, Charles, Moral Place, 3rd West Yorks, Oct. 21/1918, 19

   Conkleton, Robert Malcolm, Moral Place, King’s Own Y.L.I., August 17/1917, 28

   Coulson, William, Holy Island, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Jan. 27/1917, 33

   Craig, Thomas, Leazes Crescent, 9th Cheshires, Nov. 7/1918, 35

   Cunningham, Joseph, Gilesgate Bank, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 26/1915, 20

   Cuthbert, Harold James, Beaufront Castle, Scots Guards, Sept. 27/1915, 39

   Dent, Melvin, W.P., Tyne Green, 49th Canadians, Oct.8/1916, 20

   Dodd, George, Gilesgate, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 19/1917, 32

   Dodd, John Robert, Gilesgate, R.G.A., October 11/1917, 36

   Dodd, Paxton, Moral Place, Durham Light Infantry, July 10/1917, 26

   Dodd, John, Moral Place, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, March 23/1918, 25

   Dodds, Frederick N., Prior Terrace, Royal Navy, April 25/1918, 18

   Dodds, John George, Prior Terrace, Northumberland Hussars, Dec. 1/1917, 26

   Dodd, William, Kingsgate Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 19

   Donnelly, William, Foundry Cottages, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 26/1915, 44

   Donnelly, Michael, Red Lamp Yard, Northumberland Fusiliers, April 26/1915, 23

   Dunwoodie, John, Burn Lane, 1/7 West Yorks., April 25/1918, 24

   Edwards, Thomas Wm., Cockshaw, Durham Royal Engineers, Sept.7/1917, 32

   Elliott, Robert, Rye Terrace, Royal Engineers,

   Emerson, John Miller, Hall Gates, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 4/1918, 21

   Evans, John, St. Andrew’s Road, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 11/1918, 32

   Ferroll, John Alder, Prior Terrace, Coldstream Guards, March 26/1918, 23

   Fewster, George Dodds, Drill Hall, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, May 27/1918, 47

   Fletcher, Edward Allen, Windsor Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, June 16/1918, 30

   Foster, Adolph, Battle Hill, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, February 2/1916, 22

   Forster, Frank, Jubilee Buildings, 27th Northumberland Fusiliers, July 1/1916, 24

   Gibson, Harry, Holy Island, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept.9/1918, 24

   Gibson, Bertrand Dees, Ruardean, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, May 25/1918, 42

   Grierson, John, Gilesgate, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 21/1915, 25

   Griffen, Harry, Moral Place, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 23/1916, 21

   Halliday, James, Market Street, Gordon Highlanders, Sept.9/1915, 30

   Hall, Fred, Duke’s House Lodge, R.A.M.C.,

   Harrison, Brian Charles, Oakerlands, Border Regiment, August 12/1918, 40

   Harvey, Fred, Holy Island, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept.16/1916, 24

   Head, Reginald, Hackwood, K.O.S.B., April 30/1915, 29

   Heenan, John, Shaws Farm, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers,

   Henderson, Richard, Gilesgate, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers,

   Henderson, William, Haugh Lane, 8th Northumberland Fusiliers, August 7/1915, 30

   Hill, William Henry, Moral Place, Durham Light Infantry, Nov.16/1915, 32

   Hill, Thomas Christopher, Moral Place, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, July 1917, 22

   Hogg, John Thomas, Tyne Green, R.A.F., Oct. 31/1918, 37

   Hogg, William, Kingsgate Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 15/1918, 34

   Hudson, Robert, Garden Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Oct. 26/1917, 21

   Hutton, Samuel Robert, Eilansgate Terrace, 1/7 Northumberland Fusiliers, Nov. 14/1916, 25

   Hallbrook, Alfred, Eilansgate Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 33

   Henderson, Robert George, Gilesgate, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Dec. 31/1916, 23

   Irwin, George, Gilesgate, 13th Durham Light Infantry, Oct. 5/1918, 20

   Irwin, Michael, Haugh Lane, Royal Enniskillens June 21/1917, 28

   Iveson, Frank Taylor, Tynedale House, 5th Manchester, June 29/1915, 30

   Iveson, James Henry, Tynedale House, 20th Durham Light Infantry, March 22/1918, 35

   Jefferson, Delegate Hall, 44th Canadians, Oct 25/1916, 25

   Kelly, James, Burn Lane, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 18/1917, 27

   Kirkland, John, Kingsgate Terrace, Royal Fusiliers, Aug. 24/1918, 19

   Kirsopp, William, Market Street, 8th Northumberland Fusiliers, Aug.11/1915, 34

   Lees, Frank Priestman, Elvaston Road, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, June 17/1916, 26

   Little, Drew, Oakfield House, 9th Durham Light Infantry, April 25/1915, 27

   Lockhart, Henry King, Summerrods Rigg Royal Engineers, June 19/1915, 32

   Long, Archibald, Tynedale Terrace, Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916,

   Long, Guy Steer, Tynedale Terrace, Suffolks, Sept. 25/1916,

   Love, William Charles, Gilesgate, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Feb.19/1918, 25

   Lowes, Arthur Lee, Meadow Terrace, West Yorks, Aug.9/1918, 20

   Lynch, William, St. Hilda’s Road, 16th Northumberland Fusiliers, July 1/1916, 21

   Lendren, Robert, Market Place, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Nov./1917, 24

   Lancaster, Thomas, Back Row, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers,

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Right hand column

   McAdam, Thomas T., Giles Place, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 4/1918, 23

   McLaughlan, William, Gilesgate, Royal Navy, Jan.18/1918, 39

   Marsh, Thomas Henry, East Gate, 8th Durham Light Infantry, Sept.23/1916, 19

   Mason, Charles Edwin, Eilansgate Lane, Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, April 5/1917, 26

   McIntosh, John, Kingsgate Terrace, 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, March 22/1918, 33

   McMahon, Philip, Circle Place, K.L.Y.I. (sic) April 9/1917, 30

   Meins, Henry, St. Nicholas’ Road, Gordon Highlanders, Aug. 15/1916,

   Metcalf, William, Prior Terrace, Northumberland Hussars, Nov.5/1914, 24

   Milburn Percy Scott, Battle Hill, King’s Royal Rifles, Dec. 9/1917, 25

   Mitchison, Nicholas, Holy Island, Black Watch, Sept. 14/1916, 30

   Mitchison, William, Holy Island, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 26

   Morris, Samuel B.M., Prior Terrace, 9th Durham Light Infantry, June 9/1918, 18

   Moss, George, Windsor Terrace, Aug.5/1916, 19

   Moulding, Robert, Holy Island, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Oct. 12/1917, 24

   Nevison, Fred, Tyne Green, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 25

   Nevison, John, Eilansgate Terrace, Northumberland Fusiliers, Oct. 16/1917, 36

   Newman, Fred, Westbourne Grove, 20th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 4/1917, 36

   Newton Ralph, Prior Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept.15/1916, 20

   Newton, John Edward, Prior Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 24

   Noble, Alfred, St. Andrew’s Road, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Oct. 29/1918, 18

   Oliver, John, Garden Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 28

   Oliver, Richard D., Beaumont Street, 4th N.F. Cycle Co., Nov. 22/1917, 23

   Oliver, William, Cockshaw, Argyle & Sutherland, April 14/1918, 42

   Oswald, William, Red Lion, 6th East Kent, Aug. 27/1918, 26

   Oxley, John William, St.Wilfrid’s Cottage, M.T. A.S.C., April 12/1918, 35

   Patterson, Arthur, St. Oswald’s Road, Royal Marines, May 7/1915, 25

   Pattinson, Gerald Edmond, Portland Lodge, Heavy Section, M.G.C., Sept. 15/1916, 32

   Pattinson, Alexander J., St. Andrew’s Road, Royal Fusiliers, Aug. 7/1917, 19

   Pearson, Anthony R.B., Kingsgate Terrace, Royal Navy, Sep. 23/1918, 31

   Pearson, George, Garden Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 26/1915, 25

   Pearson, William G., Eilansgate Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 26/1915, 21

   Pencott, John, Gilesgate Bank 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, March 27/1918, 20

   Pencott, Thomas, Glovers Place, 22nd Northumberland Fusiliers, July 1/1916, 30

   Pigg, Thomas, Cecil Terrace, 8th Northumberland Fusiliers, Aug. 20/1915, 35

   Plant, Sidney, Hermitage Cottage, 13th Royal Fusiliers, Aug. 23/1918, 19

   Plummer, Lionel Davey, Hengarth, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 15/1916, 25

   Potts, George Williamson, Tyne Green, 22nd Northumberland Fusiliers, April 9/1917, 37

   Potts, Thomas, Kingsgate Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 16/1916, 20

   Reay, Isaac, Glovers Place, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, June 21/1917, 23

   Redpath, James Thomas, Abbey House, K.O.S.B., April 26/1915, 28

   Reed, Michael, Back Street, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, June 21/1918, 41

   Richardson, Andrew G., Bush Inn, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, June 21/1918, 43

   Richardson, Francis Aymer, West Park, R.F.A., May 27/1918, 35

   Riley, Ernest, Moral Place, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Nov.14/1916, 23

   Riley, Francis, Gilesgate Bank, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Aug. 4/1915, 36

   Riley, James, Gilesgate Bank, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Dec. 1/1915, 46

   Robinson, John Wilfrid, South Park, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Nov. 14/1916, 22

   Robinson, George Sidney, South Park, 1st Batt. East Kents, April 26/1918, 19

   Robinson, Joseph William, Quatre Bras, 19th Australians, Aug. 30/1915, 25

   Robson, Frederick, North Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 27/1917, 21

   Robson, John, North Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, May 25/1915, 21

   Robson, John Edward, North Terrace, 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, Oct. 13/1918, 30

   Robson, John, Market Street, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Jan. 4/1918, 25

   Robson, John, Priestpopple, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Feb. 15/1917, 31

   Robson, James, Priestpopple, Royal Naval Division, Oct. 26/1917, 28

   Robson, Joshua Benjamin, Market Street, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, March 3/1916, 26

   Robson, Percy, Richmond Place, Royal Naval Division, Jan. 19/1917, 19

   Rowell, James, Gilesgate, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, July 13/1918, 35

   Robson, Thomas William, Ridley Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 27/1916, 22

   Salkeld, David, Tyne Green, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 19/1916, 24

   Savage, Cuthbert Farrar, The Priory, 10th Northumberland Fusiliers, June 20/1917, 27

   Scott, Victor E., Garden Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 26/1915, 37

   Scott, William, Fellside, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, July 9/1917, 22

   Smith, Charles, Back Street, 51st West Yorks, April 12/1918, 19

   Smith, James, Back Street, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 26/1915, 19

   Smith, Cuthbert, Hencotes, Northumberland Fusiliers, Aug. 25/1918, 20

   Smith, George William, Anick Road, East Yorks, Aug.14/1917, 20

   Smith, Robert William, Bell’s Court, West Yorks, April 16/1918, 33

   Smith, Robert, St. Andrew’s Road, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, July 2/1917, 31

   Smith, Thomas William, Priestpopple, R.F.A., May 11/1917, 20

   Smith, Walter Henry, Market Street, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Aug. 11/1917, 41

   Snowball, Charles Ed., Prior Terrace, 16th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 11/1918, 32

   Snowball, John S., Kingsgate Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 1/1918, 19

   Sparke, Errol, St. Hilda’s Road, 20th Middlesex, March 22/1918, 28

   Spedding, James M., Grammar School Lodge, 23rd Brigade, R.F.A., Oct. 30/1917, 28

   Spencer, Harry, Hazelhurst, Durham Light Infantry, Nov. 17/1916, 42

   Stewart, Joseph, Holy Island, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Oct. 26/1917, 23

   Strang, John Traquair, St. Nicholas Road, R.F.A., May 18/1918, 20

   Summers, William, Kingsgate Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept. 10/1918, 20

   Sword, David, Battle Hill, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, May 27/1915, 36

   Telfer, Richard Dalziel, West End Terrace, R.G.A., June 5/1918, 38

   Thew, William Richard, Shaftoe Leazes, Northumberland Hussars, Oct. 26/1916, 21

   Thompson, John Edward, Woodbine Terrace, Royal Naval Division, April 23/1917, 22

   Thompson, John William, Gilesgate Bank, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Aug. 15/1916, 20

   Thompson, Matthew, Market Street, 4th East Yorks, May 27/1918, 21

   Thompson, John, Quatre Bras, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 26/1915, 21

   Tully, Richard Latimer, West Quarter, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, July 22/1918, 19

   Turnbull, Walter, Orchard Place, Australian Expeditionary Force, Sept. 21/1915, 33

   Urwin, Thomas Alexander, Shaftoe Leazes, Royal Flying Corps, Jan.15/1918, 21

   Wallace, Ernest, Woodbine Villa, Australian Expeditionary Force, Sept. 19/1916, 25

   Wallace, John, Woodbine Villa, Gordon Highlanders, Dec. 14/1914, 26

   Walton, Ernest, Portland Terrace, Winnipeg Grenadiers, April 9/1917, 27

   Walton, George Pears, Acomb High House, Northumberland Fusiliers, Aug./1918,

   Walton, Harold Foster, Station House, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 10/1917, 23

   Watt, William, Kingsgate Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Feb. 2/1916, 43

   Watson, George, Moral Place, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, May 2/1916, 26

   Watson, Joseph, Moral Place, Yorkshire Light Infantry, May 2/1916, 28

   Welch, Robert Matthew, Priestpopple, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Oct.28/1916, 19

   Whittaker, Isaac H., Market Street, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 25/1915, 29

   Wilkinson, William, Spital Terrace, Royal Navy, Aug. 16/1915, 24

   Wilson, Robert, Giles Place, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Aug. 6/1916, 36

   Wilson, William, Sele Terrace, Royal Naval Division, June 6/1915, 23

   Wilson, William, Prior Terrace, Mercantile Marine, March 11/1917, 16

   Woodman, William Ernest, Alexandra Terrace, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, April 26/1915, 23

   Woolaston, Percy, Battle Hill, King’s Liverpools, July 31/1917, 28

   Wilkinson, Norman, Crescent Avenue, East Yorks, Sept.11/1918, 20

   Wilkinson, John W., Snape Farm, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Oct. 8/1918, 22

   Young, Frank, Skinners Arms Cottage, Northumberland Fusiliers, Feb. 7/1916, 28

   Young, Joseph, Skinners Arms Cottage, A.S.C., Nov. 10/1918, 29

   Young, Robert, St. Wilfrid’s Road, 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, Sept.9/1916, 20

   Relatives and Friends are requested to intimate to Mr. John A. Baty, the Hon. Sec.,

   Hexham War Memorial Committee, or to Mr. M. Green, any misdiscription or omission in the above.

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