Name	John Balfour MERRY
Rank/Number	Lance Corporal  / 265280
Regiment/Unit	Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry / 1/1st Bucks Battalion
Enlisted	Buckingham
Age/Date of death	24 / 16 Aug 1917
How died/Theatre of war	Killed in action / France & Flanders
Residence at death	Great Horwood
Cemetery	Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Reference	Panel 96 to 98
Location of memorial	Padbury
Date/Place of birth	Dec qtr 1893 / Padbury
Date/Place of baptism
Occupation of Casualty	employed by Mr Arnold
Parents/Occupation	Thomas Arnold & late Leah Merry nee Salmons /
Parents' Address	1901: Main St, Padbury
Wife
Wife's Address
Notes	member of St John Ambulance; Padbury Church Choir. Wrote letter to Bucks Advertiser in 1915 denying rumour that he had gone insane