Photo: J. Brown
1914 + 1939
1918 - 1945
Those honoured here
died in the service
of their country
and lie buried elsewhere
in this cemetery
Shoeing Smith H. Jennings
Royal Field Artillery 3.11.1918
Sergeant N. Smith
Royal Air Force 3.9.1945
Private J. Walker
Northumberland Fusiliers 11.7.1916
Carole Fife has provided the following.
John was born in County Durham in 1883. The 1891 census gives his birth place as Acton, in 1911 it is given as East Rainton, and at enlistment he gave it as Bishop Auckland. His parents were John and Annie Christina and his father was a miner who died in 1907. The family lived first in Cramlington and then in Victoria Terrace, Bedlington Station, and John became a miner like his father. He joined the 23rd Northumberland Fusiliers (4th Tyneside Scottish) He died on 11th July 1916 and a note on his record says that he died at home. He was buried in Bedlington Cemetery but the exact site of his grave is not marked. He is named on a headstone in the old part of the cemetery together with Shoeing Smith Henry Jennings.
He is remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04
