David ETHERINGTON Trooper 7435, 14 th King’s Hussars Battalion. Died 21 st July 1917. David Etherington was born in Howden-le-Wear in 1882, the eighth of nine children born to John and Rebecca Etherington who moved to Railway Street in Howden-le-Wear after living at Penshaw in County Durham. The 1911 Census shows that David, aged 18, and his brother Robert, aged 26, were boarding with Thomas and Mary Halliburton at Howden-le-Wear. David was working as a putter in the mines and Robert as a brick maker’s apprentice. David Etherington enlisted in the Army in Sunderland. He left Britain for overseas service in the Middle East on the 14 th November 1915, serving as a Trooper in the 14 th King’s Hussars Battalion with the Household Cavalry and the Cavalry of the Line. The regiment had been serving in India and were posted directly to Mesopotamia in 1915 where they stayed until May 1918. David would certainly have seen some very hard fighting and experienced very difficult living conditions during his two and a half years in the Middle East. He died on the 21 st July 1917 in Baghdad. He was buried in the Baghdad North Gate War Cemetery. The Auckland Chronicle of Thursday 23 rd August 1917 reported that a Memorial Service was held in the Parish Church, Howden-le-Wear, on the previous Sunday morning for two of its own, David Etherington and Thomas Evans.

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