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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John Thomas Varnham
Forename(s):
John Thomas
Surname:
Varnham
Initial(s):
J T
Service Number:
32296
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire) Regiment, 1/5th Battalion Territorial Force
Died:
13/08/1918
Aged:
20
Buried:
Cologne Southern Cemetery
Service History:
Enlisted on 15 November 1916 at Morpeth, Northumberland.
Served with the Expeditionary Force in France from March 1917. Wounded at Loos in the following June & invalided home.
Re-joined his regiment in France in November. Taken prisoner at Bullecourt on 21 March 1918, & died, a Prisoner of War, at Essen Hospital, Germany.
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18'; Part 5; Page 165. Also available via Ancestry.co.uk)
Background:
Born 15 April 1898, at Howick, Northumberland, the second son of Albert Varnham, of White House, Ewesley, near Morpeth (Sett Maker; late Sapper, Royal Engineers), by his wife, Susan, daughter of John Crozier.
Educated at Font Burn, Ewesley.
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-18'; Part 5; Page 165. Also available via Ancestry.co.uk)
Local Memorial:
Alnwick, 'Alnwick & County Gazette Almanack, 1918' (Photos page 08).
Fontburn, Memorial Plaque on the Green
Fontburn, Old Boys' Roll of Honour originally in Fontburn Council School, now in the County School
Netherwitton, Memorial Plaque at St Giles' Pa
