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Pte. John Noon
British Army 22nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.5th June 1918)
John Noon enlisted at Newcastle, served in the 22nd Battalion (Tyneside Scottish) the Northumberland Fusiliers and died of wounds on the 5th June 1918 aged 46. He is remembered in St Paul's Church and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery.
He was born in Edinburgh, son of James and Maria Noon. In the 1911 census he is single, age 37, living with his widowed mother Maria aged 69 who was born in Longford, Ireland. He is working as a shipyard labourer. Also living there are his younger brother Patrick, single, aged 28 (a rope manufacturer by trade) and his younger sister Ann, single, 21, working as a warehouse woman. Both Patrick and Ann were born in Sunderland.