| Surname: | Haugh |
| Initials: | J T |
| Rank: | Private |
| Army Number: | 13030868 |
| Notes: | CMP. Enlisted in the Pioneer Corps and transferred to CMP. VP Eastern Comd. He was born and resided in Newcastle upon Tyne. Casualty List 816/20, Home, Died result of accident, 13/4/1942. 20/9/49 He was awarded the Defence Medal, War Medal. Address:- Mrs J Phillips, 87 Bolan Street, South Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne 6, Northumberland. No inscription on gravestone. John James Haugh. Extract from Western Gazette, 17/4/42. SOLDIER CYCLIST'S DEATH, Collision with lorry at Middlemarsh. An unmarried soldier Pte John Thomas Haugh of the Corps of Military Police age 28 whose home address was given as 78 Bolam Street, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, died in hospital at Sherborne following a road accident. He was riding a pedal cycle and when near the White Horse Inn Middlemarsh, came in collision with a lorry, owned by Messrs. B Tite and Sons of Cerne Abbas and driven by Lewis Harry Coffin, of Pond Farm, Hillfield. At the inquest on Wednesday morning the Coroner for North Dorset (Mr W H Creech) recorded a verdict of accidental death. The accident happened at 11 pm and it was stated that the cyclist, who had previously visited the Inn, had no lamps on his machine. The Coroner said "He was probably doing what we have all done at some time - risking a ride home without lights in the hope of not meeting the constable, and that was really the cause of the accident. Ernest Alfred Pitt, Church farm, Hermitage said he went to London with Coffin in a two ton cattle truck. Just before the accident the speed of the lorry was about 28 mph. Witness did not see the cyclist, but felt the bump which made Coffin stop. Coffin found the deceased on the cycle on the grass verge on the right hand side of the road. The driver of the lorry gave evidence - asked by Police Superintendent Cherrett why he did not see the cyclist, witness replied "I did not see him at all" and suggested he might have come across from the ban and have run straight into the lorry. PC Trevett stationed at Buckland Newton gave evidence that there were no lamps on the pedal cycle. The Coroner said he had had no evidence of criminal negligence on the part of the lorry driver, but there was negligence on the part of the deceases, who war riding a cycle in the black-out without lights. After the hearing the Surgeon Commanders evidence that Haugh at the time of the accident was not under the influence. |
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| Date of Death: | April 13, 1942 |
| Company: | UNKNOWN |
| CWGC Link: | 2810158 |
| Cemetery: | NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE (BYKER AND HEATON) CEMETERY, UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧 |
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