Noah Whitehead, Age 26

Private, 300131, 1st/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

Noah and Ernest were the sons of William and Sarah Ann Whitehead of 26 Lawley Bank, Dawley.

Noah the eldest son was killed in action with his regiment whilst serving with them during the third battle of Ypres (Passchendaele); His name was added to the list of the missing and is found on the Tyne Cot Memorial panels 23 - 28.

If it was not bad enough losing one son, William and Sarah had to suffer the loss of a second son when on the 4th April 1918 Ernest died from wounds while being tended too at a Base hospital.

Noah Whitehead, Photo courtesy of Dave Shaw.

Worst was to follow for Sarah when her husband William died in June 1918 whilst still grieving for their sons. Sarah had the two son’s names put onto the family headstone below the name of their father at Cemetery Road, Cemetery Dawley Bank.

Extra info:
Noah may have gone to Halifax; St John, Canada, in 1913 and returned from New York, USA, to Liverpool 22 Sep 1914? In the last quarter of 1916 at Aston, Birmingham, Warwickshire, he married Florence Freeman, and on the 22nd of February 1917 they had a daughter and named her Violet M Whitehead.

WWI Medal Rolls Index Card

Commonwealth War Graves
Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial

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Victory Medal	British War Medal