Notes
Recovered 11.07.2022 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/330803/john-thomas-varnham/
Son of Albert and Susan Varnham, of Embleton, Lesbury, Northumberland
Recovered 11.07.2022 from https://bailiffgatecollections.co.uk/world-war-1-database/1411-john-thomas-varnham/
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