Name
Jack Ashton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Stan Ashton, son of Frank Ashton, confirms that Jack was the cousin of brothers Frank and Harry Ashton and that, before and after the war, he lived in the Croft, Shillington Rd. No birth or baptism records have been found for Jack, but his parents were Thomas and Phoebe Ashton (née Pearce). Baptism records list four siblings, Alice (bapt 1863), George Thomas (bapt 1864), Lizzy (bapt 1866) and Hedley (bapt 1879).
The Parish Magazine of June 1917 records him as serving in the Training Reserve and then, in September 1918, notes that he had recently received a slight wound, so by then he must have been on active service.
Sometime after the war Jack took a smallholding near Baldock.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
