John Thomas Pawlett and his younger brother Samuel were both killed in the First World War. They were born at Burley-on-the-Hill but moved to Hambleton. John was a farm labourer who lived with his widowed mother Emma and younger brother Frederick. Sam had moved to work as a gardener at Rufford Gardens in Nottinghamshire. John joined the 1/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, and went out with them to France in February 1915. He survived the Battle of Loos, Vimy Ridge, Gommecourt and Hill 65, until he was killed by a shell on 5 December 1917. John is buried at Noeux-Les-Mines Cemetery, grave IV.A.20, and is remembered on Hambleton's war memorial alongside his brother.