Name
John Dorken
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/10/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
170779
Royal Field Artillery
35th Brigade, H.Q.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CREMONA TOWN CEMETERY
C. 1.
Italy
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Much Hadham Village Memorial, St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Much Hadham, Stone Bench Plaque, Much Hadham Congregational Church Memorial, Hadham Cross, Not on the Hoddesdon memorials
Pre War
Born in 1888 in Little Bardfield, Essex son of George and Sarah Dorken later of 18 North Road, Hoddesdon. He lived at Mardocks Farm, Wareside with his widowed mother and worked as a farm labourer in 1911 and later in Much Hadham.
He was unmarried. Enlisted at Hertford.
Wartime Service
35th Brigade, H.Q.
He was admitted to 39th Stationary Hospital on 13th October 1918 and transferred to No 41 Ambulance on the 15th October 1918, but died of Influenza on the 19th.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum), Laurence Pattitt
