Before joining up he was a farm labourer and on the Kent he was on the 6 inch guns which seem to have suffered a direct hit. The military record gives no special skills.
I've just discovered a family blog which suggests that there was also a child born and died in South Shields in 1913, so they were on the move, even if briefly. The Alnwick Gazette Almanack is more specific than Eglingham and says he was of Harehope. Maddening!!
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