John Robert Warrington
View John Robert on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
240954
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Service:
Leicestershire Regiment
Origin:
Date of birth:
1898
Date of death:
21 June 1917
Age at Death:
19
Known information
John Robert Warrington was born in Preston in the summer of 1898, the son of William and Mary Warrington. He was a gardener before the war and on 4 November 1914 he joined the 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, aged just 16 years old. He was sent to the Western Front in July 1915 and took part in the Battles of Loos and the Somme. He was killed near Chocques from wounds and gas poisoning on 21 June 1917 and is buried in Chocques Military Cemetery, grave I.L.11. John is remembered on Preston's war memorial.
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John Robert Warrington was born in 1898. His father was a General labourer and his mother couldnt write, as on John Robert's birth certificate, an X is written, with the following caption-'The mark of Mary Warrington'.
By Master Clarke on Tuesday 16th February '16 at 2:27pm
Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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