John King

Name

John King

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

03/09/1916

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
2300
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
6th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

MILL ROAD CEMETERY, THIEPVAL
X. C. 9.
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey,
St Paul’s Church Memorial, Bushey Heath,
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey,
Wesleyan (Bushey & Oxhey Methodist) Church Memorial, Oxhey

Pre War

John King, resident in Vale Road, Bushey during the war, had been a member of the Sunday School at St James’ Parish Church.


Nothing is currently known about family or background. 

Wartime Service

He enlisted as Private 2300 in the West Yorkshire Regiment. He returned home on leave shortly before he was killed by a shell in France on 3 September 1916.



Additional Information

A fatality named J King is commemorated on the Bushey Memorial, at St James’ Parish Church, at St Paul’s, at St Matthew’s Church and at Bushey & Oxhey Methodist Church.


Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk

Acknowledgments

Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild