On the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli) is the Commonwealth War Grave of 4180 Private John Yeouart, serving with the 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 19/08/1915.

Susan Carmichael has provided the following.

John Yeouart, sometimes on the records spelled Yeowart, was the son of Peter Douglas and Rachel Little (nee Bell). He was born in 1884 in Cockermouth, Cumberland.

On the 1891 census he was living in Church Street, Dearham, Cockermouth, with his parents, and a brother and sister. John was 7 years old, his brother William was aged 10 and his sister Eleanor was 5.

In 1901 the family were still in Cumberland. Father Peter was a miner (hewer) aged 37; mother Rachel was aged 35; John was 16 and working as a driver in the coal mines. Ellen was now 15, Margaret was 9, Catherine was 4 and brother Tom was 1.

According to the records, John married Mary Foster in Cumberland, 1902.

The 1911 census shows the family as having moved to Northumberland, and they were living at 5 West Terrace, Stakeford, Choppington, Bedlington. John lived here with his parents, a sister and 4 brothers, along with two girls, recorded as granddaughters of the head of the household, John’s Father, Peter. These would have been John and Mary’s children. John was working as a coal miner.

John is recorded as being married, but there is no mention of his wife in 1911.

John Yeouart is remembered in Stakeford on S71.02 and in West Sleekburn on W34.01