Remembrance Sunday 2012

Veterans prepare to lay wreaths Eldon Square 2012
Source: ChronicleLive.co.uk

 

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QM and CO 101 Regiment RA (V)
"Raspberry ripple please"

Remembrance - TS Earsdon

Small ceremony at the graves of two fallen Tyneside Scots burried in Earsdon St Alban Churchyard with the Tyneside Scottish Association.

Earsdon St Alban

CWGC Earsdon (St Alban) Churchyard

 

Tyneside Scottish Association Earsdon (St Alban) Churchyard



Private Peter Lockey

Private Peter Lockey died siddenly 30th January 1915, and is recorded as the first casualty of the Tyneside Scottish in the Great War.

GWGC Information

Tyneside Scottish ROH Private P Lockey

Private Dannie Bell

Private Dannie Bell was wounded on the Somme, probably on 1st July. He sirvived World War One, but finally sucumbed to his wounds in May 1919.

CWGC Information

Tyneside Scottish ROH Private L Bell





Saltwell Park 2012 - Field of Remembrance

Saltwell Towers Gateshead

 

Saltwell Park Gateshead
Field of Remembrance

 

Saltwell Park Gateshead
Field of Remembrance

 

 

 

 Saltwell Park Gateshead

6th / 8th / 9th DLI Memorial

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Saltwell Park Gateshead

6th / 8th / 9th DLI Memorial

 

In Memory of Private Matthew Stephenson

8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry

Lost as a POW on SS Scillin

14th November 1942

 

CWGC Information

 

Commemorated on the  Alamein Memorial