Name
John Rowland Dann
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/09/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
11256
Hampshire Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 7 C and 7 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town War Memorial
Pre War
Son of William and Jane Elizabeth Dann, of Cranmore Leas Rd., Guildford, Surrey. He had worked for the Gentleman’ Department of Frost & Co in Royston.
Wartime Service
John arrived in France on the 19th December 1915. On the 9th September1916 he was leaving a trench as part of an attack when he was hit by a shell, he managed to get up but was hit for a second time and died a few minutes later.
His body was never recovered from the battlefield and his name is recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
