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Name:

John GRAY

Casualty No.:

Ranks:

Trooper

Initials:

Service No.:

270557

Date of Birth :

Place of Birth :

Stella, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Age at Death:

Unit:

Worcester Yeomanry (The Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars)

Former Unit(s):

Northumberland Hussars (Yeomanry).

Place Enlisted:

Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

Place of Residence:

Stella, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Home Address:

Previous Address:

Civilian Employment:

Miner at Addison Colliery.

How Died:

Malaria

Date of Death:

Saturday 2nd November 1918

Place of Death:

Egypt

Battle/Campaign:

Locally Commemorated:

Addison Colliery War Memorial, Co. Durham. St Mary and St Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church, Roll of Honour, Stella, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham.

UK Commemorated:

Blaydon War Memorial, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Overseas Commemorated:

Buried:

Beirut War Cemetery.

Decoration and Medals:

Photographs:

Service Records:

Death Notice/Obituary:

Blaydon Courier, page 5, 23rd November 1918.

Family Details:

Son of Thomas H Gray, and the late Elizabeth Gray of Stella Road, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Notes :

Sources Used:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register.

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