Name
John Victor Mutton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/05/1918
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
604473
Royal Field Artillery
H.Q., 158th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot LXVIII, Row B, Grave 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour
Pre War
Son of Alice Ann (nee HIGH) MUTTON of Reedham, Norfolk, and the late John MUTTON; husband of Margaret Brown Smith (nee INNES) MUTTON of Watford.
His parents married 20 October 1883 at St John the Baptist, Reedham. John died 1895 in the Brimingham district aged 35. Alice remarried 1901 in the Ticehurst, Sussex, district to James REEVE, and died 1939 in the Acle, Norfolk, district aged 74.
John was born 2 May 1886 in Halvergate, Norfolk, and baptised 6 June 1886 at St John the Baptist, Reedham. He married 1908 in the St George Hanover Square, London, district; they had one child.
On the 1891 Census, he lived in Reedham, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1901 Census, a page aged 14, he lived in Broadwater Down, Kent. On the 1911 Census, a butler aged 24, he lived in Camberley, Surrey, with his wife and one child.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, John’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
