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Pte. Thomas William Aitken
British Army 14th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.3rd Sep 1917)
Thomas William Aitken served with the 14th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. He was aged 26 when he died on 3rd September 1917.
Born in Jarrow in 1891, son of Thomas and Jane Aitken (nee Moss), he lived and enlisted North Shields. On the 1911 census Thomas William Aitken is recorded as being age 21, a Gas yard Labourer living with his wife Kathleen (nee Gray) at 6 Shakespeare Street, North Shields.
Thomas is buried in the Menin Road South Military Cemetery. He is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.