Name
John Scripps
1873
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/09/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19839
Hampshire Regiment
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KARASOULI MILITARY CEMETERY
C. 604.
Greece
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Barley Village Memorial, St Margaret's Church Memorial, Barley, Not on the Barkway Memorials
Pre War
John Scripps was born in 1873 in Barkway, Hertfordshire, the son of David and Eliza Scripps and was baptised on 9 August 1874 in Barkway.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at Shaftenhoe End nr Barley, where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. In 1891 they were living at Smiths End, nr Barley, at which time, John was also working as an agricultural labourer.
John enlisted in Royston in 1892 and served with the Bedfordshire Regiment under reg. no. 4319. He was serving in India in 1895 with the 1st Battalion, followed by South Africa with the 2nd Battalion during the second Boer War.
He married Lilian Ford on 6 May 1907at St Michael's Church, Wood Green, Haringey, London (in the presence of his brother Albert Scripps). Their daughter Margaret Kathleen was born on 21 September 1910.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in Tottenham, London (N.B. his sister lived with her family at 20 Carew Road, Tottenham) and served with the 10th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in the Balkan Theatre from 30 October 1915.
He was killed in action on 6 September 1918 and is buried in Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece.
Additional Information
His sister Elizabeth Green received a war gratuity of £14 10s and pay owing of £23 19s. She was also awarded a pension of 10 shillings a week as guardian to his daughter Margaret Kathleen, born in 1910. N.B. note on the pension records indicates this is a 'motherless rate' due to an 'unworthy wife'.
Elizabeth also obtained probate of his estate in London on 4 April 1919 with effects of £42 11s.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Paul Johnson, Adrian Pitts
