Name
John Ramsbottam
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3270
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
John was born around 1879. He had served in the South African (2nd Boer) War as a Private with the Regimental Number 7461 in the 2nd Volunteer Company of the 1st Battalion of the Border Regiment. He was discharged at his own request on the 19th June 1902.
His home was at 2, Taylor 's Cottages, Union Road, Hitchin and he was married. After his death his wife received a widow's pension.
Wartime Service
In the Great War he served in the Hertfordshire Regiment with the Regimental Number 3270. This dae suggests that he enlisted between 5th September 1914 and the 4th November 1914.
He was probably discharged on medical grounds and he died at home of pulmonary phthisis (tuberculosis). His occupation at the time of his death is shown as a Laundry Porter.
He was buried in Grave 483 in the North East Extension of Hitchin Cemetery on the 3rd April 1915. but by 1998 no trace of it could be found.
Additional Information
He was entitled to the South African War Medals of 1901 and 1902 with clasps ‘Cape Colony’, ‘Orange Free State’ and ‘Transvaal’. His name is missing from the CWGC records. His surname as shown on the Hitchin Town Memorial is ‘Ramsbotham’, but this is incor
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
