Name
John Stanners Partridge
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/04/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
645525
Royal Field Artillery
51st Heavy Div. Ammunition Col.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ANZIN-ST. AUBIN BRITISH CEMETERY
II. A. 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
THE STRIFE IS O'ER THE BATTLE DONE
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, Sunnyside Memorial, Berkhamsted, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Apsley Mills, Apsley
Pre War
John Stanners Partridge was born in 1898 in Berkhamsted, the son of William and Catherine (Kate) Partridge, and one of four children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 5 Chapel Street, Berkhamsted, where his father was working as a telephone exchange caretaker. His father died in 1908 but his widowed mother remained at the same address in 1911 and had taken over the role of the telephone exchange caretaker. John and his younger brother Harry were the only two children still living at home.
Prior to enlistment John was working for the paper manufacturers, John Dickinson & Co, in Apsley Mills.
Wartime Service
John enlisted in Watford and joined the Royal Field Artillery, initially as a Driver, then later as a Gunner with the 51st Heavy Div. Ammunition Col., attached to the 'Y' 51st Trench Mortar Battery. He served in France from 1 November 1915.
He was killed in action on 6 April 1917, aged 19, and is buried in Anzin-St Aubin British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £12 10s and pay owing of £7 7s 3d. She also received a pension but the amount is not shown on the pension card.
Mr J H Partridge, 3 Abbs Street, Southwick, Sunderland, County Durham, ordered his headstone inscription: "THE STRIFE IS O'ER THE BATTLE DONE".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
