J.+MELLOR+Winster

Mellor, John, Sergeant, 18856, 1st Battalion, Canadian Infantry Served as John Needham Born Flagg, Derbyshire Enlisted Valcartier Camp, Quebec, Canada Killed in action 15th June 1915 aged 26 Commemorated on the Vimy Memorial

Canadian Army Service records information: John was born in Flagg, Derbyshire, on the 15th September 1888. He enlisted at Valcartier Camp, Quebec, 22nd September 1914, stating his occupation as a stone cutter, and his next of kin as his brother, Thomas Needham of 9729, 81st Avenue, Strathcona, Alberta. He was six feet in height, had a fair complexion, blue eyes and brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England. He had three vaccination marks on his left arm and a scar on the lower part of his right leg.


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