Served with the 11th Battn and was wounded on the 1st July 1916

John was born in 1882 and enlisted in Mansfield on 10th September 1914 aged 31. He was a banksman (miner).

John received a gun shot wound in the peroneal (lower left leg) during the 11th Battalion’s assault on Ovillers when they suffered heavy casualties moving from the reserve in Authuille Wood to the British front line. They suffered total casualties of 518 Officers and Men. See here

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John was transferred to the Reserve in September 1916 and discharged in July 1917. He was awarded the 1914/5 Trio and a Silver War Badge.