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Spr. Herbert William Todd
British Army 1st/3rd Durham Field Company Royal Engineers
(d.29th Jun 1916)
Herbert Todd died age 22. He was born in Wallsend in 1894. In the 1911 Census, he is listed as Herbert William Todd, age 16, an Apprentice Blacksmith in Ship Repairing, living with his parents, Henry & Anna Mary (nee Horsborough) Todd & family in Wallsend. He had enlisted in Walker with the Northumberland Fusiliers. He was the husband of Kate Dorothy Young (formerly Todd - nee Harris) of 48 Nansen Street Jarrow.
Herbert is buried in South Shields (Harton) Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.