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Spr. William Cuthbert McCarthy MM.
British Army 206th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.3rd Dec 1918)
William Cuthbert McCarthy served as a Sapper with the 206th Field Company Royal Engineers and was awarded the Military Medal. He was aged 23 when he died on 3rd December 1918. Born in Westoe in 1895, he lived in East Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as William Cuthbert McCarthy age 15 Colliery Worker above ground living with his parents Robert and Margaret Ann (nee Gray) McCarthy and family at 25 Simonside Terrace, East Jarrow.