Name
John Ward
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/08/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
28290
East Surrey Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
II. A. 30.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
John Ward was born in 1894 in Oxford to James Charles Ward and Sophia Harriett (nee Harber),
On the 1901 Census the family of James C, Sophia, James Arthur (born 1890), John, and Daisy M (born 1900) were living in Station Road, South Mimms, Potters Bar.
Father James C died about May 1910.
On the 1911 Census Sophia, a widow was living at 2 Station Road, Potters Bar with Daisy M, Herbert (born 1904) and Lilian (born 1906)
Wartime Service
No Service record was found for John.
Enlisted as Private 11397 in the Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment but following as bout of influenza in Sep 1916 was transferred to East Surrey Regiment as Private 28290 in 3rd (Reserve) Battalion. On 9 Feb 1917 John was posted to 8th (Service) Battalion joining them in the field at Ypres on 8 Mar 1917 and took part in the early battles of Passchendaele. He was ill with Severe Trench Foot in Hospital in Chicago USA in Nov 1917. On his return to UK he was posted to 1st Battalion East Surrey. Taking part in the Battles of the Lys in early 1918. His Battalion was deployed to the Somme Battle Area in Aug 1918 prior to the Hundred Days Offensive. John fell ill and died of pneumonia on 5 Aug 1918.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £12 10s and arrears of £15 3s 7d was paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
