Name
John William Warwick
26 July 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/04/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12030
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHILI TRENCH CEMETERY, GAVRELLE
Sp. Mem. C. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
Memorial inscription - 'THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT'
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Welwyn Village Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Roll of Honour, Welwyn
Pre War
Born in Welwyn on 26 July 1891 and baptised there, in St Mary's Church, on 6 Sep 1891. He was the fourth son of William and Sarah Anne Warwick.
His father was a shoemaker and family lived in Mill Lane, Welwyn. On the 1911 Census John was living in Fleet Street, London in the household of banker Edward Henry Hoare where he was working as a footman. He married Emily M. Warner in 1916 and later was living in Aldershot.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford and served in the 6th Battalion which was a 'service' regiment, raised for the duration of the war.
He went to France in 30 Jul 1915. In April 1917 the Battalion was engaged in the Battle of Arras and on 29th April in the Battle of Arleux where heavy losses were sustained in the assault on Greenland Hill in which he died. His loss was reported in the Hertfordshire Mercury on the 12th May 1917-“Pte. John Warwick, Beds. Regiment, brother of Harry Warwick of the Railway Tavern, killed by a German shell on the Arras Front”.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £12 10s was awarded to his widow Emily, as well as pay owing of £5 12s 4d. Brother George enlisted with Beds Regt but was medically discharged July 1916.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Malcolm Lennox, Paul Jiggens, Welwyn and District History Society - www.welwynww1.co.uk, Brenda Palmer
