John Thomas Brittain (poss Britton)

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