Name
John Frederick Routledge
1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/09/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Northumberland Fusiliers
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 19 to 23 and 162.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
John Frederick Routledge was born in 1882 in Blyth, Northumberland, the son of James and Elizabeth Routledge.
On the 1891 Census he was listed as a scholar at St Oswald College, Tynemouth, Northumberland along with brothers Barras and Arthur. By 1901 the family were living at 7 Park Terrace, Whitley, Northumberland where his father gave his occupation as a wine and spirit merchant.
By the time of the 1911 Census he was a boarder at the home of widow Elizabeth Nixon and her family at 57 Warkworth Crescent, Newburn on Tyne, and was working as an assurance [insurance] agent.
He married Evelyn Dawe in Tring, Herts on 1 February 1917 and they lived at 51 High Street, Tring, Herts. His widow later lived at Thornhill, Boxwell Road, Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
He initially enlisted into the Lancashire Yeomanry as Private 3453 but later obtained a commission and served as Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
He served in France from 20 May 1917 but was killed in action on 23 September 1917, aged 33. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His widow was granted probate of his estate on 28 March 1918 in London with effects of £250. She received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £92 11s 6d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
