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Pte. Thomas Doig Shearer
British Army 26th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

(d.1st Jul 1916)
Thomas died aged 36, he had been wounded in the head on 17th of April in France and was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He was born in Dundee, lived Jarrow and enlisted in Wallsend. He was the husband of Catherine Shearer (nee Hughes) of 65 Tyne Street Jarrow. In the 1911 Census, Thomas Doig Shearer, age 31, is listed as a Shipyard Rivet Heater, living with his wife Catherine Shearer & their 3 children lived at 14, Shakespeare Street Back, Jarrow.
Thomas is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.

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