Name
John Thomas Brittain (poss Britton)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/07/1916
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27454
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park, Not on the Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 14 Jul 1881 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and baptised on 18 Sep 1881 in Hoddesdon son of John and Mary Britton of 80 Rye Road, Hoddesdon.
Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1898-1903.
Enlisted at Bedford
Wartime Service
Mentioned in despatches (1916). He was twice wounded, returned to the Front and was then killed in action by shell fire in Mametz Wood.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
