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Pte. Oswald Detchon

British Army 1st/4th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers

from:North Shields

(d.14th Sep 1918)

Oswald Detchon died aged 31. He was born and lived in North Shields and also enlisted there. He was the son of Oswald and Frances Annie Detchon (nee Elliot) of North Shields. On the 1911 census he is recorded as Oswald Detchon age 23 Waterman for Tyne Improvement Commission is with his parents Oswald and Frances Annie Detchon and family at 147 Howdon Road, North Shields.

Oswald is remembered on the Screen Wall in Worms (Hocheim Hill) Cemetery and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (south face) Jarrow.



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