3rd Bn (Special Reserve) Northumberland Fusiliers, attached to £rd Bn West India Regiment.
Former Unit(s):
Place Enlisted:
London
Place of Residence:
Cromer, Norfolk.
Home Address:
Britannia House, Church Square, Cromer, Norfolk.
Previous Address:
Civilian Employment:
Journalist. Blaydon and District correspondent for the Newcastle Evening Chronicle. He later worked for the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa and for a weekly newspaper in Cromer, Norfolk.
How Died:
Sunstroke in a hospital in Egypt.
Date of Death:
Tuesday 23rd May 1916
Place of Death:
Egypt
Battle/Campaign:
Locally Commemorated:
St Mary and St Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church, Roll of Honour, Stella, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham.
UK Commemorated:
Cromer War Memorial, Cromer, Norfolk.
Overseas Commemorated:
-
Buried:
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. Reference C. 6.
Decoration and Medals:
Queen's South Africa Medal, King's South Africa Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Photographs:
1
Service Records:
No
Death Notice/Obituary:
Blaydon Courier, page 5, 10th June 1916.
Family Details:
Son of the late Michael Dempsey of Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham, and husband of Muriel A Dempsey of Britannia House, Church Square, Cromer, Norfolk. Four year old child.
Notes :
Served throughout the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902. Stationed in Boldon, Co. Durham, 1914-1916. He had only been in Egypt for three months before he died.
Sources Used:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register.
Soldiers Died in the Great War.
