In Whickham Garden House Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave with a private headstone of 19171 Corporal Horace James Thompson serving with the 19th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers who died 22/12/1916.

The family headstone reads:

In
loving memory of
Corp. Horace James
dearly beloved son of
Thomas & Eliza Thompson
who died December 22nd 1916,
aged 20 years,

At evening time there shall be light.

Also of the above
Thomas Thompson
who died October 30th 1918,
aged 52 years.

Thy will be done.

Also Eliza
dearly loved wife of the above
Thomas Thompson
who died December 11th 1918
aged 51 years.

I’ve wrestled on towards heaven
gainst storm and wind and tide.

Coroner’s Court report No. 293 dated 11th June 1917 states:
Horace James Thompson aged 20 years, Corporal 19th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. No 19 Newton Street, Dunston. Found dead in the River Tyne near Redheugh Bridge at 6.55am on 10th.

Deceased was found dead in the River Tyne, but by what means he came to his death, or how he got into the River, there was no evidence before the Jury to show.

Horace James Thompson is remembered at Dunston on D38.07, at Dunston Hill on D31.01,  at Whickham on W86.09 and in the Battalion History page 222.