Name
John Potter
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
John Potter was born at Scarborough, Yorkshire, in 1875. In the 1911 Census he was listed as a “Boarder” living at 82 Marlin Square, Abbots Langley in the house of Alfred and Sarah Ann Pearce. Both John and Alfred were employed as Attendants on the Insane at the Leavesden Asylum.
In May 1916 the Leavesden Parish Records noted that John Potter, an Attendant at the Leavesden Asylum had “joined HM Forces”.
John was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in January 1917, serving with the 8th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment. At some point later in 1917 John was transferred to the Garrison Guards, and at the end of the hostilities in December 1918 was recorded serving with the Irish Command. It is assumed that he had been transferred to either the 1st Garrison Battalion or more probably to the 2nd Garrison Battalion of the Irish Guards. It was unlikely that he joined the 1st Garrison Battalion as they had sailed for Egypt on 6th September 1915, but more likely that he joined the 2nd Garrison Battalion, which after being formed in Dublin, was sent to France in April 1918, and fought at the Front through to the end of the War.
John Potter survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 8th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment & Garrison Guards. Rank unknown.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
