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231384

Capt. Frederick Lewis Vernon DCM.

British Army 26th (3rd Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

from:122 Rodsley Avenue, Gateshead

(d.1st July 1916)

Frederick Vernon was born in Monmouth, Wales in 1885, the son of David Hunter Vernon and Martha (nee, Morgan). He joined the 26th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, the 3rd Tyneside Irish in January 1915 and was transferred to France in 1916. He died on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He left five children, Edna, Dorothy, Marjorie, Frederick and Patricia. Frederick never saw his sixth child, Sydney Morton Vernon who was born 24th December 1916. Sydney went on to be awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal during World War Two.



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