Name
John George Farmer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/09/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/66938
Royal Fusiliers *1
13th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HERMIES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
IV. C. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Essendon War Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Essendon, Not on the Hatfield memorials
Pre War
John was born in January 1898 in the Hatfield Workhouse where his mother Emily was a Domestic Servant to the Master of the Workhouse. John lived with his Grandparents George and Hannah Farmer, in Essendon.
He was Baptised on the 24th March 1898, in the Parish of Bishops Hatfield, Herts. The 1901 census shows John aged 3 years living with his Grandparents in Essendon, Herts. and the 1911 census shows John aged 13 years, at school and living with his Widowed Grandmother at Stony Yard, Essendon, Herts. (His Grandfather died in 1907).
Wartime Service
John enlisted in 1917 in Hertford. Formerly with the Northamptonshire Regiment with the service number 47063 from 2nd July 1917 – 20th July 1917. Then transferred to the 20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers with the service number G/66938 from 21st July 1917 – 29th January 1918, and then the 13th Battalion Royal Fusiliers with same service number from 30th January 1918, to when he was killed in Action on the 4th September 1918.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Kensington).
Acknowledgments
Sue and Colin Rees, Stuart Osborne
