Name
J Batchelor
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/11/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265087
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
19th
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ACTON CEMETERY
Section D, Row E, Grave 9.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Markyate memorials, London Road Methodist Church, West Croydon, Greater London
Pre War
John Batchelor was born in 1883 in Markyate Street to John Thomas Batchelor, baker, and Mary (nee Hawes).
On the 1881 Census the family of parents and James Hawes (born 1878) were living at Markyate Street, Caddington, Beds.
On the 1891 the family of parents, James and John were living at the rear of the Wesleyan Chapel on Tamworth Road, Croydon. John’s father was the caretaker.
On the 1901 Census the family were still Living at the rear of the Wesleyan Chapel. James was a grocers counterman and John was a tailor’s assistant.
John married Emily May Summerfield in 1904
John’s Mother Mary died in 1910.
On the 1911 Census the family of John, Emily, daughter Violet May (born 1905) together with sister in law Violet Annie Summerfield, a housemaid, were living at 70, Queens Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon. There would be a further daughter Kitty Vida (born 1915). John was now a tailor’ s cutter (trousers). John’s father together with his older brother James were still living at the London Road Wesleyan Chapel.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for John. He may have enlisted at an early stage of the Great War as a Territorial Soldier in the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. He may have been posted to the 69th Provisional Battalion which had been formed at Tunbridge Wells in Jun 1915.
On 1 Jan 1917 this was renames as 19th Battalion, and John was renumbered as T/265807. Both battalions were for Home Service Personnel and Territorial units.
John was taken ill and transferred to Norfolk War Hospital where he died from Influenza on 5 Nov 1918.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £14 5s and arrears of £17 5s 9d was paid to his widow Emily.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Anne & Gordon Mead
