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Sgt. David Orr
British Army 20th Battalion (1st Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gosforth
(d.5th June 1917)
David Orr was born in Parton in Cumbria into a large family. They moved to the Ryton area of Northumberland and most seem to have worked in the coal mining industry, including David. He was married in 1905 and moved to Gosforth at some point prior to him joining the Tyneside Scottish, while some of his siblings stayed in the Ryton area.
He is named on the memorial at Arras. His brother Thomas was a member of the 1st/4th Battalion Territorial Army of the Northumberland Fusiliers, but he was killed in 1915.