On the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium is the name of 3/10735 Private Luke Burlinson Farrar, serving with the 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry who died 06/02/1916.

The son of Luke Burlinson Farrar and Elizabeth Ann Farrar and the husband of Mary Jane Prior (formerly Farrar), of 4, Stoney Lane, Southwick, Sunderland.

Luke Farrar was the fourth son of Luke Farrar of Southwick on Wear, Shipyard Labourer, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of George Clark of Southwick.

Luke was born in Southwick on the 25th July 1884. He was employed at Pickersgill’s yard Sunderland. He married at Sunderland on the 22nd May 1906, Mary Jane, daughter of James Foster of Sunderland. They had four children:  Sarah Elizabeth born 19th July 1905,  Ester Jane born 13th September 1908, Luke Burliss born 8th June 1912 and James born 13th April 1915,

Luke enlisted on the 26th September 1914 and was trained at South Shields. He was killed in action “somewhere” in France, on the 6th February 1916. He was buried in Rotize Cemetery. Age 30.

Source: De Ruvigny Roll of Honour

Luke was killed in the front line, South of Crump Farm which was located near Battalion Headquarters within Potijze Wood.

Additional Research: James Pasby

Read the book:-“The Steel of the DLI by John Sheen for history of the 2nd Battalion DLI in WW1. ISBN No. 9781848841437

Luke Burlinson Farrar is remembered at Southwick on S130.22,  in Peter Gibson Southwick War Dead, at Sunderland in S140.048 Part 2 page 11 and in S140.48 Part 12 page 268 and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page  21.