JANUARY
02/01/1916 41 KNOX, L Cpl (acting Cpl) Joseph Tait, No. 17120, 9th (Service) battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), died of wounds on 2nd January 1916, aged 32, and is buried in Birmingham (Lodge Hill) Cemetery. 42 OO BALMER, Thomas Frederick, Munitions worker, died of lyddite poisoning on 2nd January 1916, aged 27. 05/01/1916 43 SCOTT, Private Thomas, No. M2/047260, Motor Transport, Army Service Corps, attached 621st MT Company A.S.C., died from pleurisy at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, on 5th January 1916, and is buried in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist Church, Bilton, North Yorkshire 29/01/1916 44 OO BROWN, Trooper James Leonard, No. 3461, 1st Life Guards, died of wounds in the 10th Stationary Hospital St Omer on 29th January 1916, aged 19, and is buried in Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France FEBRUARY
26/02/1916 45 CHISHOLM, Pte Robert Elliot, No. 13021, 9th (Service) battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, died of wounds on 26th February 1916, and is buried in the Bedford House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium MARCH
20/03/1916 46 JOICEY, Capt the Hon Sydney James Drever, 10th (Service) battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, in action on 20th March 1916, aged 31, and is buried in Lievin Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France 27/03/1916 47 GIBSON, Pte Henry, No. 7/1549, 1/7th (TF) battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, died on 27th March 1916, and is buried in the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 48 PORTEOUS, Private James, No. 7/3370, 1/7th (TF) battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, was killed in action on 27th March 1916, aged 20 and is buried in Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. APRIL
16/04/1916 49 MACLAGAN, Lt Philip Whiteside, Mentioned in Despatches, 5th (Cumberland) (TF) battalion The Border Regiment, was killed in action on 16th April 1916, aged 20, and is buried in the Ridge Wood Military Cemetery, near Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. MAY
12/05/1916 50 COMMON, Pte Joseph, No. 2943 2/7th (TF) battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, died on 12th May 1916, and is buried in Chatton (Holy Cross) Churchyard, Northumberland 22/05/1916 51 HUTCHISON, Pte George, No. S/11214, 1st battalion Seaforth Highlanders, died of fever on 22nd May 1916, aged 26, in Mesopotamia, and is buried in the Amara War Cemetery, Iraq 52 SCOTT, Sapper Adam, No. 64505, 56th Field Coy, Royal Engineers, killed in action 22nd May 1916, aged 29, he is buried in Wytschaete Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 29/05/1916 53 WHITTLE, Pte Alexander, No. 3518, 1/7th (TF) battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, died on 29th May 1916, aged 25, and is buried in La Laiterie Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 31/05/1916 54 LAING, Lt Henry George Stobart, RN was lost in action, aged 25, when his ship the battle cruiser HMS Indefatigable was sunk by enemy action during the Battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916, and he is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth Hoe JUNE
29/06/1916 55 HALL, L Cpl John Short, No. 18/774, 18th (Service) battalion Northumberland (1st Tyneside Pioneers), died of wounds on 29th June 1916, aged 25, and is buried in the Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. 56 TROTTER, Pte Robert, No. 29054, 15th (Reserve) battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, died from pneumonia in the Military Hospital, Cannock Chase on 29th June 1916 and is buried in Rugeley, Wolseley Road, Cemetery |