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Name:

Francis Mathwin WEEKS

Casualty No.:

Ranks:

Captain

Initials:

F M

Service No.:

Date of Birth :

Place of Birth :

Surbiton, Surrey.

Age at Death:

Unit:

Northumberland Fusiliers attached 8th Bn Durham Light Infantry.

Former Unit(s):

Place Enlisted:

Place of Residence:

Axwell, Surbiton, Surrey.

Home Address:

Axwell, Surbiton, Surrey.

Previous Address:

Civilian Employment:

Mining Engineer.

How Died:

Killed in action

Date of Death:

Thursday 11th April 1918

Place of Death:

Belgium.

Battle/Campaign:

Locally Commemorated:

Commemorated on a family headstone in Holy Cross Churchyard, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham.

UK Commemorated:

The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers War Memorial, Neville Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

Overseas Commemorated:

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Buried:

No known grave

Decoration and Medals:

Mentioned in Dispatches, November 1916.

Photographs:

Service Records:

Death Notice/Obituary:

Family Details:

Younger son of the late William James Weeks and Mary J Weeks of Axwell, Surbiton. William James Weeks was born in Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham, 29th October 1848. He died in Surbiton, 16th June 1912. A brass commemorative plaque dedicated to him is in Ryton Holy Cross Church. His wife, Mary, died on 16th April 1922.

Notes :

Educated at St Andrew's School, Eastbourne, Surrey, and Uppingham. He gained his Bachelor of Science degree at Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He was badly wounded at Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, in 1915. He returned to the front in March 1916 and was Mentioned in Dispatches in November 1916. Gazetted Captain in the Northumberland Fusiliers, December 1917. Details of Weeks last will and testament were published in the Blaydon Courier, 4th January 1919.

Sources Used:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register. Officers Died in the Great War.

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