St.Andrews Cemetery, Jesmond-Grave of Peter Ferguson R.N. d. 24 July 1921

[pirhana]

To River Tyne Lass, Tickettyboo, AllanUK and Chris Doran, many apologies for my delay in replying to your latest posts. Many thanks also to River Tyne Lass for your efforts- when I saw the details on the inscription I remembered it from my visit to the cemetery when in Newcastle some 10/11 years ago. I remembered that Maria ( my greatgrandmother) had died during the First World War and the inscription obviously confirmed it. I have a vague recollection from burning the midnight oil one time when doing family history research that Peter-Maria's husband ( my greatgrandfather) died after her, but I might be wrong-old age! If however I am correct the fact that his death isn't recorded on the inscription suggests that it was after 1925 when Mary died. Anyway that's another avenue for me to research!
To Tickettyboo many thanks for having one of those "lightbulb" moments and doing some great detective work to locate the actual grave.I'll now be able to give my relative the information she was trying to find.After my initial post I did follow up some of the advice given and fired off an email to Bereavement Services @ Newcastle Council but haven't had a reply yet. Now that doesn't really matter.
Many thanks again to all who replied, Pirhana.

[stevej60]

Pirhana,it would be well worth contacting the CWGC they hold correspondence and additional info on many
service personnel in their records,in reality Peter was entitled to an official CWGC headstone but being buried in an existing family plot a civil headstone may have been in place.To be added to the addenda panel at
Chatham would suggest someone may have reported Peter as a non commemoration but I bet there is some
form of correspondence held in the records as an example,My uncle was KIA in 1940 never recovered so is
recorded on the dunkirk memorial,I contacted the CWGC as there were a good few of his company killed in
the same incident(a direct hit on their billet) all buried in Lille cemetery,they replied and told me after the war twenty men were exhumed from the local churchyard seventeen identified along with three unidentified
Possibly one may have been my Uncle but we'll never know.
all the best Steve.

[pirhana]

To stevej60, many thanks for your post. My own feelings about Peter Ferguson's name being on the Chatham Memorial are as follows; I have a copy of his death certificate which was issued after a coroner's inquest. He died as the result of exhaustion and gangrene in a leg wound after an operation in Chatham Naval Hospital to remove some glands which in my opinion may have gone wrong considering surgery and surgical procedures a century ago .It may have been that he suffered an injury whilst on duty immediately prior to the operation or sometime earlier which necessitated this. Although he wasn't killed on active service he died while serving the Crown/ Royal Navy.Hence his name is on the Memorial.

Pirhana