Northumberland Fusiliers Badge
Morpeth Herald 27/10/1916 carries a brief obituary:
ROLL OF HONOUR
LONSDALE.- Died from wounds received in France, October 14th, 1916, Private J.R. Lonsdale, N.F., of Bedlington, aged 28 years.- (Deeply mourned by his loving father and mother, sisters and brother, and brother-in-law (now in France.)
Derek Johnstone and Carole Fife have provided the following:
John Robert Lonsdale, the eldest child in the family, was born at Bedlington, Northumberland about 1889. His parents were George, a coal miner from Spennymoor, County Durham and Mary Lonsdale who was born in Bedlington. Included in his family which was living at Chapel Row, Bedlington in 1891 was a brother Francis aged one.
In 1901 John’s family had moved and were living at Bank Top, Bedlington and included siblings Margaret 7, Dorothy 4 and Elizabeth who was 10 months old. John was 12 years old and appears to be still at school.
By 1911 John was 22 and employed as cartman and living with his parents at 3, Bells Place, Bedlington where his father George and brother Frank were both working underground in the coal mines.
John enlisted at Newcastle and on his death his effects went to his mother Mary which would indicate he was not married.
John Robert Lonsdale is remembered in Bedlington on B15.02
Is he the "R. Lonsdale" on B15.09?
