World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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James Tate
Forename(s):
James
Surname:
Tate
Initial(s):
J
Service Number:
290820
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Northumberland Fusiliers, 1/7th Battalion Territorial Force
Died:
14/11/1916
Buried:
Warlencourt British Cemetery
Service History:
Enlisted at Alnwick, Northumberland.
The UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 (available via Ancestry.co.uk) records an earlier regimental service #, 3007, possibly with the Northumberland Fusiliers.
Background:
Born about 1898, at Ponteland, Northumberland, the son of Matthew R. Tate (b. 1866; at Whickham, Gateshead, County Durham; a Police Pensioner in 1911), by his wife Mary (also b. about 1866; at Long Benton, Northumberland).
The family lived in St. Michael's Lane, Alnwick, Northumberland.
Four siblings of Tate are recorded in the 1911 Census: two brothers, George (18; b. at Chollerton, Northumberland; a Cabinet Maker) & Matthew (16; also b. at Chollerton; a Baker's Errand Boy); & two sisters, Alice (11) & Ellen (9). Both sisters were born at Alnwick.
One of two sons lost: see, also, Matthew Tate (Regimental service #1702, Northumberland Fusiliers, 1/7th Battalion Territorial Force; Died 15 September 1916).
Local Memorial:
Alnwick War Memorial