In Harton Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of 26661 Private John Marshall, serving with the 3rd Battalion Durham Light Infantry, who died 11/09/1916.

He died at St. John’s Hospital South Shields. His pension card says he died of Enteritis contracted on Active Service and that his widow Mary Isabella lived at Cowgate, Fenham. The couple had married  January 6th 1916 and had no children. John had only enlisted into the army on August 25th 1916 and went into hospital on September 8th and died 3 days later.

In his service records Mary Isabella gives the Vicar at Spital Tongues as a reference.

John Marshall is remembered at Spital Tongues on S108.01 and in the  D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page  240.