Name
John Day Brace
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/03/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
59635
Royal Fusiliers *1
9th (County of London) Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOUZINCOURT RIDGE CEMETERY, ALBERT
I. D. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, Not on the Little Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Born in Little Berkhamsted in 1886, Son of Thomas and Annie Maria Brace, of Little Heath, Potters Bar, Middx.
In 1911 he was a gardener living with his parents Thomas and Annie Brace and six siblings in Thornton Road, Little Heath.
Wartime Service
Originally enlisted at London in the 31st (R) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and given service number 1691.
Killed in action during the First Battle of Arras 1918.
Additional Information
Son of Thomas and Annie Maria Brace, of Little Heath, Potters Bar, Middx.
*1 More correctly (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
