240264, Private, John Lawrence GLYDE
Aged 21


1st/5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Died of pneumonia on Monday 25th November 1918

Born in Newmarket in Q2-1897 [Newmarket 3b:510] to John Soloman and Priscilla Diss GLYDE (née RADFORD) of 9 Bakers Row, Exning Road, Newmarket.

1901 census...John [3] was at 9 Bakers Row, Exning Road, Newmarket with his father John [37], a gas meter fitter, born Newmarket; his mother Priscilla [38] and sisters Ella [2] and Bertha [8 months] all Newmarket born.

1911 census...John[13] was an apprentice gas fitter, still at Bakers Row with his parent; sisters Ella Marguerite and Bertha Lenora and a new sister, Nora Priscilla [7] born Newmarket.


It seems quite likely that John Glyde , Frank Stacey, , Walter Argent ,and Fred Challice all arrived in Gallipoli on 10th August 1915. "H" company of the 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment consisted 83 Newmarket and 25 Mildenhall men.



John served in the Balkans until invalided back to England from Mudros, a small port on the Greek island of Lemnos, 50 miles from the Dardanelles and Gallipoli on the HMHS Formosa on 25th October 1915. At present there is no knowledge of when he returned to active duty. The rest of the battalion left Gallipoli early in December 1915. Arriving at Mudros on the 7th it was found that only 43 fit men remained. In the four months in Gallipoli the battalion had through enemy action and disease suffered over 800 killed, died, wounded or missing. Rest was brief, supplemented by a draft from UK, they shipped out again and arrived in Egypt on 19th December 1915. The 5th Suffolks remained in Egypt, Palestine or Syria for the rest of the war. John died of pneumonia at 32 C.C.S. in Palestine.







John's temporary grave



photo from asiawargraves.com


photo: Commonwealth War Graves Commission


John is buried in Beirut War Cemetery, Lebanon - Ref:302
and also commemorated on the Roll of Honour in St Marys Church, Newmarket

click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details


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