Tuesday, 26 June 2012


 

Sunderland Solicitors before enlisting

 

2678: Private Frank Blair Allen

Member of Nicholson & Blair-Allen, of Sunderland

Durham Light Infantry - 1/7th Battalion

Killed in action - 24 May 1915 in 2nd Battle of Ypres

 

2/Lieutenant Arthur William Sinclair Stockdale

Durham Light Infantry - 7th Battalion (Territorial)

Gazetted 2nd Lieut – 9th Feb 1915

Killed in action - 24 May 1915 in 2nd Battle of Ypres

 

Major Charles William Hines

Born Sunderland

Durham Light Infantry - 7th Battalion (Territorial)

Killed in action - 24 May 1915 Age 41

Son of Thomas Shallcross Hines and Elizabeth Hines, 8 Leafield Rd., Darlington

 

2/Lieutenant Gilbert Player

Born Sunderland

Durham Light Infantry - 21st Battalion

Died of wounds in France 30th July 1916.

 

Captain Norman Robinson Shepherd

Durham Light Infantry - 7th Battalion (Territorial)

Date of Death: 4th November 1916

Son of Andrew Thomas Shepherd &Alice Shepherd, The Hawthorns, Ryhope Rd, Sunderland

 

Captain Frederick Cecil Longden

Durham Light Infantry - 4th Battalion

Managing Clerk with Longden, Mann & Longden,

Killed in action 24th August 1918 Age 30

Son of the late James Appleby Longden and Annie Walker Longden, of Sunderland.

 

There are records of a further 32 Solicitors that survived the war: 

 

 

 

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