Name
John Thomas Brittain (poss Britton)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
Royal Field Artillery
Defense Travel Management Office
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY
Enclosure No.4 I. E. 17.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Not on the Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 5 Mar 1887 in Ilford, Essex son of Arthur and Frances Ellen Britten later of 200 Pinner Road, Harrow, Middlesex. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1898-1903.
Wartime Service
Mentioned in despatches (1916). He was twice wounded, returned to the Front and was then killed in action by shell fire in Mametz Wood.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
