The story of a coach painter's four sons, the gun-making streets of Elswick, and the war that took one of them In Plot 3 of Tezze British Cemetery, a short way from the River Piave in north-east Italy, lies a Newcastle soldier who never came home. Lance Corporal Thomas Eglon of the 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, died on 27 October 1918, aged 32. He was the eldest of four brothers who grew up in the same terraced house in Elswick, and all four of them served in the