He was a gardener working for Lord Ranksborough until the war, and had been a member of the Territorial Force
since its formation and was also an assistant scout master, besides being a bellringer.
Mobilising with the Territorials, he went to the Front on 26 February 1915 with the 1st/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
and was killed as the British tried to capture a German strongpoint known as the Hohenzollern Redoubt during the Battle of Loos
John has no known grave but he is remembered on panel 42 of the Loos memorial.
One of the millions who lost there lives in ww1
