There is an application in July 1911 for a replacement master's certificate, which your man says was lost in 1901 during the Boer War. He was serving in East Transvaal, South Africa, as a trooper in the 2nd Imperial Light Horse.
He came back to England in 1911, serving as an able seaman on the Kildonan Castle, running the Cape mail from Cape Town to Plymouth. (7-24 June).
It looks to me like it was Blyth he died at, there is a death registration in Tynemouth registration district in June quarter, 1918.
The best newspaper is probably the Morpeth Herald, Woodhorn isn't great for newspapers but Morpeth library has a full set. Otherwise I guess a look through cemetery records for Blyth at Woodhorn.
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