Name
John Llewellyn Cuffe
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/04/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235269
King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
1st Bn.
'A' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY
VIII. E. 29.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the South Mimms memorials, Chipping Barnet War memorial, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Barnet WW 1 Memorial
Pre War
John Llewelyn CUFFE was born in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, in 1888, son of John Henry Cuffe, a Mercantile Clerk and Elizabeth Ostler Cuffe (nee Vaux). The eldest of nine children although two died in infancy. His parents married on 21st July 1886, in the Congregational Church, Yeovil, Somerset, both his parents were from Somerset.
1891 Census records John Jr. aged 2, living with his parents and sister Hilda (3 months) at “Chinnock” Stapylton Road, Barnet, Herts. The family had a live-in General Domestic Servant and a Boarder.
1901 Census, John Jr. (12), his parents, three sisters and two brothers are living at 21 Stapylton Road, Barnet, Herts. The family has a live-in General Domestic Servant.
1911 Census, John Jr. (22), is working as a Sewing Machine Mechanic, single, still living with his parents four sisters and brother Henry (12), at 21 Stapylton Road, Barnet, Herts. His Cousin Edith Florence Vaux (20) is staying with the family.
Wartime Service
John jr. travelled to Priory Road, Hornsey, London the HQ of the Middlesex Regiment on 30th November 1914, he enlisted in the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) Territorial Force for 4 years, he served with the 4th & 7th Battalions with the service numbers 3447 & 200929. He was promoted to Lanc Corporal on 18th February 1916, until 5th July 1917, when he reverted to a Private. In September 1917, he volunteered for overseas service and was transferred to the Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) with the service number 235269, He joined “A” Company, 1st Battalion, Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) in the field on 24th September 1917. John Jr. was wounded in action on 18th April 1918, and admitted to No. 22 Casualty Clearing Station, at Lozinghem, France, where he died of his wounds on 27th April 1918. He is buried in Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, France. Grave Ref; VIII. E. 29.
Additional Information
His effects of £17-11s-06d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £15-10s-00d, went to Ethel Hearn, his Legatee (Possible his Fiancé).
Both his brothers Herbert Benjamin Cuffe & Henry Ostler Cuffe served in the war and survived.
Herbert served with the 7th Battalion, Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) Territorial Force, later transferred to the 5th (City of London) Battalion (London Rifle Brigade), he was discharged on 6th March 1918, under Par 392 (xvi) K.R. Wounded, no longer physically fit for war service and issued with the Silver War No. 354146. Herbert served in Egypt and France.
Henry Ostler Cuffe is believed to have enlisted in late 1917 or early 1918, in the 4th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, transferring to the Royal Air Force in April 1918. With the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, he was discharged in April 1919.
John Jr’s. service record is available on-line at Find My Past UK, www.findmypast.co.uk and Ancestry UK. www.ancestry.co.uk
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
