Name
John Henry Styles
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
159244
Labour Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHORLEY WOOD (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD
10. 7.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Chorleywood Memorial Hall Plaque, Chorleywood
Pre War
Born in 1891 and baptised on 11 Jan 1891 in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire son of William Bastin and Elizabeth (Pettifer) Styles. He married Lucy Eleanor Whitney on 25 Apr 1914 in Watford and they lived at 20 Solesbridge Lane, Chorleywood. He had three children and was a gardener and general labourer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Watford on 9 Dec 1915 formerly 35380 Private, Middlesex Regiment and was transferred to the Labour Corps on 18 May 1917 and served at home. He was admitted to the 1st Eastern General Hospital at Cambridge on 28 Oct 1918 with influenza and pneumonia and died there.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
