In Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 14073 Lance Corporal Stephen Welsh, serving with the 14th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 18/10/1917.

He was the son of Stephen and Jane Welsh, of Bedlington, and the husband of Jane Welsh, of 8, Oldgate Row, Bebside.

Eoin Gallacher has submitted the following:-
Stephen Welsh was born 1881 at Seghill, Northumberland, eldest child to parents Stephen Sr and Jane Welsh. In 1891 the family were living at Bank Cottage, Bedlington, Stephen Sr was working underground as a Coal Miner. During 1905, Stephen married Jane Clark, they went on to have Jane in 1906 and William in 1908. On the 1911 census Stephen was working as a Coal Miner, residing at 2 North Terrace, Bedlington.

He enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers, being assigned to the 14th Battalion and allotted the service number 14073, arriving in France on the 9th September 1915. Stephen was promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal.

He went on to die of wounds on the 18th October 1917 at No.17 Casualty Clearing Station, during the Battle of Passchendaele.

Morpeth Herald 16/11/1917 carries a brief obituary:
ROLL OF HONOUR
WELSH.- Died of wounds on the 18th Oct., 1917, Lance-Corpl. Stephen Welsh.- Deeply mourned by his sorrowing brothers and sisters, Ellen, Margaret, Frances, William Butler, John and George (in India).

A few of his brothers also served, his brother in law Anthony Thompson died in 1917 and his nephew Stephen Welsh Thompson died in 1940.

Stephen Welsh is remembered at Bebside on B14.02 and at Blyth on B42.24.