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Pte. Alexander Foster Ball
British Army 20th Battalion (Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.1st July 1916)
Alexander Foster Ball served with the 20th (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. He was aged 35 when he died on Saturday 1st July 1916. On the 1911 census he is recorded as
Alexander Foster Ball age 30 Ships Platers Helper in Shipyard is with his wife Phyllis and children at 10 Lyon Street, Hebburn. Born in Jarrow he was the son of Thomas and Mary Ball (nee Foster) and husband of Phyllis Forman O. Ball (nee Hayton) of 77 Tyne Street Jarrow. Their son George Lloyd Ball served in WW2 as Gunner 1427147, aged 30 when died on 15th December 1943.
Alexander is remembered on the Thiepval Memorialand is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.