[Listed as William CHRISP on memorial] either William CHRISP - Private 9566, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action 5 May 1915. Born Morpeth, Northumberland, enlisted Bedlington, Northumberland.

or William John CRISP - Private 200267, 1st/4th Battalion, Northumbeland Fusiliers. Died 14 November 1916. Aged 22. Born hexham, Northumberland, enlisted Bedlington. Son of Robert and Mary Crisp, of The Crags, Barrasford, Northumberland. Buried in CAYEUX MILITARY CEMETERY, Somme, France. Plot II. Row A. Grave 5.

Private 147078, 78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry. Killed in action at Abancourt 14 August 1917. Aged 38. Born 12 August 1884 in Northumberland. Son of Ralph and Isabella Dodds, of The Crescent, Gunnertown, Barrasford, Northumberland. Attested and passed fit 1 July 1915 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, unmarried, Machinist Helper by trade, agedd 30 years 11 months, height 5 feet 5¼ inches, chest 37 inches, fair complexion, brown eyes, auburn hair, religious denomination Church of England. Commemorated/Buried in LA CHAUDIERE MILITARY CEMETERY, VIMY, Pas de Calais, France. Annapolis Cemetery Mem. 15. National Archives of Canada Accession Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 2559 - 5

Note: There are now 908 servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 314 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to a number of casualties known to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate men whose graves in some of the concentrated cemeteries had been destroyed in subsequent fighting.

Captain, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Killed in action 19 December 1914. Aged 33. Son of Thomas and Mona Taylor, of Chipchase Castle, Wark-on-Tyne; husband of Mary Taylor. Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). Buried in LE TROU AID POST CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX, Pas de Calais, France. Plot/Row/Section E. Grave 7.

Extract from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916, Volume I, page 390:

CAPTAIN HUGH TAYLOR, 2nd BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, of Chipchase Castle, Northumberland, and was born on the 24th December, 1880.

He was educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours. He joined the Scots Guards in June, 1904, becoming Lieutenant in May, 1905, and Captain in November, 1914. Previous to the war he was Machine Gun Officer of his battalion, and on going to the front he became Brigade Machine Gun Officer.

He led his company in an attack near Rouges Banes on the night of the 18th-19th December, 1911, and succeeded in reaching and occupying part of the German trenches. He returned alone to the British trenches to report, and while going back to rejoin his men was caught by machine-gun fire and killed instantaneously. During the informal Christmas truce his body, which was lying near the German trenches, was brought over to the British lines by the Saxon soldiers with their heads bared, and was buried in the little military graveyard at La Cardonière Farm.

He was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French's Despatch of the 14th January, 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct.

It is interesting to note that on Christmas Day, when the Saxons and British soldiers met during their " truce," each side collected and brought the dead to the centre of the space between their respective lines. Two trenches were dug, and the British and Saxon soldiers were buried, the English Chaplain reading the service, which was translated into German as he read. The soldiers afterwards fraternised for some hours.

Captain Taylor married, in 1907, Mary, daughter of Henry Villiers Stuart, of Dromana, and left a son and a daughter.

Able Seaman C/SSX 17511, H.M.S. Eskimo, Royal Navy. Died of wounds 13 April 1940, received when his ship was torpedoed the previous day. Aged 24. Husband of Victoria McPherson, of Gunnerton, Northumberland. No known grave. Commemorated on CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, Kent. Panel 35, Column 3.

Note: On 12 April 1940 Eskimo was hit by a torpedo fired from German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele. The explosion caused severe damage, blowing off Eskimo's bow. After temporary repairs, by the shipwrights of the fleet repair ship Vindictive at Skjelfjorden in Norway, Eskimo was able to return to the Vickers Armstrong works at Newcastle for rebuilding.