Name
John Ernest Rae
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/01/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Bombardier
895700
Royal Field Artillery
386th Battery, 30th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
Plot III, Row G, Grave 9.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Christ Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Ada (nee HULBERT) RAE of Watford, and the late John RAE.
His parents married 10 October 1891 at St Stephen’s, Bow, London. John died 1903 in Watford aged 36, and was buried 26 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Ada died 1939 in Watford aged 71, and was buried 23 December, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
John was born 1895 in Bethnal Green, London.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Bethnal Green, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a sugar boiler aged 15, he lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died in Mesopotamia.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, John’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. There is a Death announcement for John in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 2 February 1918. Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War. Recorded as serving in the Hertfordshire Regiment (386 Battery) in the Borough Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
