Every Name a Story
In Railway Chateau Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 1083 Corporal James William Gardiner, serving with the 446th Field Company, Royal Engineers, who died 04/05/1915.
The husband of M. Gardiner, of 205, Chestnut Street, Ashington, Northumberland.
Soldiers Died in the Great War states that he was born in Morpeth and enlisted in Newcastle. He formerly served with the Northumbrian Division, Field Company, Royal Engineers.
Morpeth Herald 14/05/1915 carries a brief obituary:
Mrs Gardner [sic], Chestnut Street, Hirst, has been notified by the Captain of his company that her husband, Corporal J.W. Gardner [sic], 1st [sic] Field Company Royal Engineers, has been killed by shrapnel. He leaves three children. The deceased served in the South African War, for which he had two medals, and was a well-known resident of the Ashington district.
James William Gardiner is remembered at Ashington on on A17.01 (A17.27) and A17.43