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18th (1st Tyneside Pioneers) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers
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Those known to have served with18th (1st Tyneside Pioneers) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Ash Oswald Charles. Cpl. (d.31st Aug 1916)
- Clark George. Pte. (d.8th Jan 1917)
- Coulson MM Arthur. 2nd Lt. (d.27th Mar 1918)
- Dixon Francis Albert. Pte. (d.4th Sep 1917)
- Dixon Matthew Burnett. Pte. (d.25th Oct 1918)
- Glen MID John Alexander. Pte. (d.21st Oct 1917)
- Graham Jack. Pte. (d.19th October 1917)
- Greenwell Andrew W.T.. Pte. (d.25th April 1916)
- Havelock MM. John Allan. Cpl. (d.16th Apr 1918)
- Lombard Edward Albert. Cpl.
- McFarlane MID George. Sjt.
- McTaggart Archibald. Pte.
- Peacock George Alfred. Lt.
- Pont William Henry.
- Quin John Edward. Pte. (d.15th Oct 1918)
- Riddle Charles William. Pte. (d.1st Jul 1916)
- Wright John. 2nd Lt. (d.4th Nov 1918)
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Cpl. John Allan Havelock MM. 18th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.16th Apr 1918) John Havelock is recorded on a memorial plaque (in my possession). He was an employee of the Windy Nook and District Co-Operative Society Ltd. and a member of Felling Primitive Methodist Chapel.
The Methodist Archives for the Newcastle upon Tyne District are relocating to Felling and the memorial is to be returned to its original home.
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Pte. Francis Albert Dixon 18th Service Northumberland Fusiliers (d.4th Sep 1917) Francis Dixon was the brother of Matthew who also died in WW1. Francis the youngest was aged 22 when he was killed at the Battle of Ypres and is buried in Belgium in 1917
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William Henry Pont 18th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Bill Pont served with the 14th and 18th Northumberland Fusiliers.
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2nd Lt. John Wright 18th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.4th Nov 1918) We have no details of my Grandad, John Wright during his service. His son John Denholm Wright was born 9 months prior to John being killed on 26th March, it is unknown if he ever met his son.
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Pte. George Clark 18th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.8th Jan 1917) George Clark was my great grandfather. He volunteered for service and joined the 18th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers which became a Pioneer Unit. He died near Bois-Grenier which is a small village near to Armentiers. We were told that he was killed by one of our own shells while digging a fall back trench behind the front lines. Had the honour to visit his grave at Brewery Orchard cemetery at Bois-Grenier two years ago. It is an experience I will never forget.
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Pte. Matthew Burnett Dixon 18th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (d.25th Oct 1918) Matthew Dixon joined the Northumberland Fusiliers early on, serving in the 1st Tyneside Pioneers with his 2 brothers. His youngest brother was killed in Belgium at Passchendaele 4th September 1917, Francis Albert Dixon and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
Matthew died at the end of the war we think the Battle of Cambrai and is buried in Awoingt Cemetery died 25th October 1918 aged 27. His other brother, Robert, survived and came home to Windy Nook Gateshead.
They where the 3 brothers of my beloved Grandmother. We have been to their graves and paid our respect to them both which was a very moving experience
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2nd Lt. Arthur Coulson MM 1st/5th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers (d.27th Mar 1918)  Arthur Coulson served with 1st/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers he was aged 22 when died on 27th March 1918. He was the son of Thomas Septimus and Caroline Jane Coulson (nee Lawer) of 18 Northbourne Road Jarrow and was born in 1895 in Newcastle. On the 1911 census he is recorded as Arthur Coulson age 15 Office Message Boy in Shipyard living with his parents Thomas Septimus and Caroline Jane Coulson and family at 61 Isabella Street, Newcastle. He attended Elswick School Newcastle. He was engaged to Margaret Dixon and worked in Bainbridge's Office where he started as an office boy. He also worked in the Newcastle Chronicle Office, was a Clerk to a solicitor and was also a piano player and a lay preacher. He worked at Monkton hospital in Jarrow. His family were all involved with the Boys Brigade in Jarrow.
Arthur Coulson joined up with his friends Frank Wadorf Allison and did not tell the family what he was intending to do. He volunteered on the 29th of October 1914 at the Westgate Road Newcastle. He was a Seargeant before he left training at Rothbury.
Arthur Coulson spent two years in Great Britain before he went to France 7th January 1916 with 18th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieut. in the 5th NF in August 1917, London Gazette. The battalion War Diary of his last month records,
Arthur Coulson as missing for seven months, thought to be a prisoner?
The Northumberland Fusiliers Regimental history page 128. "C" Company No. 9 Platoon 564 notes in in pencil 584 Coulson A. Platoon Sgt, Lieut. 5th NF MM died in Germany.
Arthur is commemorated on the Heath Cemetery Memorial, Harbonnieres.
He is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrowand was also commemorated one time on a brass plaque with six others, which hung in the porch of St. John's Wesleyan Church St. John’s Terrace, Jarrow
The plaque was engraved by Mr. M. Hamilton of Jarrow (aged 80 years)
The church was demolished in 1964 (It is not known what happened to the brass plaque).
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Pte. John Edward Quin 18th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.15th Oct 1918) John Edward Quin enlisted on the 16th October 1914 at Newcastle. He was 19 years old and a grocer by occupation. John joined the 18th Battalion (Tyneside Pioneers) the Northumberland Fusiliers and died on the 15th October 1918 - age 21. His medal card shows an entitlement to the British War and Victory Medals but does not show a qualifying date.
A further search of military records show that he served as a private in Home and France theatres. He was recommended for a commission and transferred from 14th Dec 1917 as a Cadet and eventually to No 2 Aerial Fighting School at Marske where he died in an aero training accident.
I think by the date of his death he may be the 2/Lt J.E. Quin buried at Hebburn Cemetery and is commemorated at St Paul's Church.
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Cpl. Oswald Charles Ash 18th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (d.31st Aug 1916) Oswald Charles Ash served with the 18th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers.
he died on 31st August 1916 at the age of 20. Son of James and Martha Mary E. Ash (nee Bell) of 12 Beech Street Jarrow, he was born in Middlesbrough, lived Jarrow and enlisted in Newcastle. On the 1911 census, he is recorded as Oswald Charles Ash age 15 at School is with his parents James and Martha Ash and family at 12 Beech Street, Jarrow.
He is buried in Contalmaison Chateau Cemetery.
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Sjt. George McFarlane MID 18th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers 18/47 Sjt George Macfarlane of the 18tn Bn Northumberland Fusiliers received a Mention in Dispatches on 7 April 1918 from Douglas Haigh, London Gazette issue 30698.
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Lt. George Alfred Peacock 18th Batalion Northumberland Fusillers My father, George Peacock joined the Northumberland Fusilliers as sapper and rose to Corporal. He served in Area 1 of France until being returned to the UK and sent to attend officer training school. He rose from corporal to lt and was transferred to the RFC as a flying officer until the war ended when he was returned to the Fusillers and demobed.
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Pte. John Alexander Glen MID 18th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (d.21st Oct 1917)  Alex Glen served in the 18th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Pioneers) and arrived in France in early January 1916. The Batallion saw action across the western front, and as a pioneer batallion was responsible for construction work, digging trenches and tunnels, laying railway lines as well as being called upon to fight 'in the line'. His platoon prepared for the disastrous Somme offensive of July 1st 1916 and was then engaged in the gruesome task of burying the dead in the aftermath. He fought at Vimy Ridge, Arras, Armentieres and other areas of the front. In 1917, the batallion was moved to Ypres where they laid the railways to carry men and ammunition to the front, often being accused of attracting enemy fire. Well, the batallion was regarded as a 'lucky' one and with only a few hundred killed, statistically this was true. While out on the battlefield in the battle for Passchendaele, Alex was caught in some fighting near the beautifully named Juliet Farm, near Poelkapelle in Belgium. He returned to help one of the other men, and was hit (we don't know what by) and taken to the Dozinghem Casualty Clearing Station near Poperinge, where he died of his wounds. His grave is in the Dozinghem Military Cemetery along with 1300 others. It is a beautiful place.
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Pte. Andrew W.T. Greenwell 18th Btn. (1st Tyneside Pioneers) Northumberland Fusiliers (d.25th April 1916) My great uncle Andrew, born about 1888, was originally Andrew White until his mother Elizabeth married her second husband William Greenwell. No-one in the family had ever mentioned him and we only discovered him whilst researching the family history through census records. My grandfather, Andrew's step-brother would have been a teenager when Andrew died. Andrew was a coal miner and the family breadwinner after the death of William. providing for his mother, step brother and 2 step-sisters. He was a single man, living in Fryers Terrace above the Co-op in Burradon, when he joined the Tyneside pioneers. After guarding trenches in the next village (Cramalington) he was sent to France in early 1916.
We found his death recorded as 25th April 1916 and were able to track the details from a book
Historical Records of the 18th (Service) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Pioneers) by Lt.Col. J. Shakespeare. He set out on the night of St Georges day with comrades to lay cables in the trenches around La Boisselle near Albert when a "petrol mine" landed in the trench killing him and a number of his comrades. All present were injured and for some, no bodies were recovered. Andrew was taken to hospital but died on the 25th. He is buried in Warloy Baillon Cemetery.
Why was he forgotten by his family? By volunteering he left my grandfather at the age of 18 as the "man of the house" and when killed left a family living in relative poverty. Why did he join up? He was a miner and there was a recruiting campaign to enlist these men for their experience. He had never married, had taken responsibility for his step-family, worked in a dangerous "gassy" mine and the prospect of seeing new things and adventure lured him. The saddness was that within months he was dead and until we found him in the records it was as if he had never existed.
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Cpl. Edward Albert Lombard 18th (Service) Battalion, ÃÆ??Ã?Ã? No.2 platoon Northumberland Fusiliers Pte Edward Albert Lombard member of 18th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers(1st Tyneside Pioneers). Member of No.2 platoon of A Company. Is on the embarkation role of the battalion when they went to France on 17th January 1916. Promoted to Corporal during his service, 1520 Corporal E.A.Lombard.
My grandfather born 9th June 1895 in South Shields, died 10th September 1963 in South Shields. After the war he became a tram driver. I believe he worked in a munitions factory during the Second World War and then became a bus conductor until his retirement. A quiet, gentle and kind man whom I wish I had known for longer.
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