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Pte. John Alexander Ferguson
British Army 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:West Hartlepool
(d.1st Oct 1915)
John Alexander Ferguson, served with the 10th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry and was killed in action on the 1st October 1915. He is remembered on the Palmer Cenotaph in Jarrow and is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals. John enlisted on the 18th August 1914 and arrived in France 9th June 1915.
John was the son of the late John and Dorothy Ferguson of 27 Faulder Road, West Hartlepool. He was born in Christ Church, West Hartlepool 1895. In the 1911 census the family were living at that address with John(54) a general labourer in blast furnace works and his wife Dorothy(37). They had 9 children and 6 survived, all are single and living at home. John Alexander(16) is an errand boy in drapers, Robert(14) errand boy in grocers, Dorothy Jane(9), Harold(7) are at school, Edith Ellen is 3 and William is 8 months old. John's father must have died shortly after the census as he is deceased before his sons death in 1915.
