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Pte. Austin King
British Army 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Usworth
(d.17th July 1916)
Austin King of the 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry was aged 34 when he died on 17th July 1916. He was born in Jarrow in 1882. On the 1911 census, he is recorded as Austin King age 17 Coal Miner Hewer is with his wife Abigail King (nee Hall) at 13 Gladstone Terrace, Usworth.
He enlisted in Washington.
Austin is remembered in Bazentin-Le-Petit Military Cemetery on a Special Memorial.