Remembering the following 14 men who were all serving with the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers when they lost their lives one hundred years ago today on the 1st March 1915. Only four of the men have known graves, the other ten all remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres.
7114 Private Thomas Ballantyne
4826 Private Edward Conroy
7634 Private Coombes
3/7874 Private Albert Fanning
7931 Private Henry Graham
8579 Private Henderson
9454 Private John Thomas Innis
1212 Private Jones
9306 Lance Corporal Albert Victor Pettitt
7914 Private Pickett
8190 Private John Scrimshaw
891 Private Arthur William Shearman
6011 Private Thornton
798 Serjeant Thomas Wadsworth
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
The image above, depicting the construction of the Menin Gate Memorial is copyright of the Government of Australia.
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