| Name |
John Balfour MERRY |
| Rank/Number |
Lance Corporal 265280 |
| Regiment |
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 |
| Last known address |
Great Horwood |
| Cemetery |
Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium |
| Grave or Memorial Reference |
Panel 96 to 98 |
| Location of memorial |
Padbury St Mary the Virgin |
| Date/Place of birth |
Dec qtr 1893 Padbury |
| Date/Place of baptism |
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| Pre-war occupation of Casualty |
employed by Mr Arnold |
| Parents |
Thomas Arnold & late Leah Merry nee Salmons |
| Parent's occupation |
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| Parents' Address (last known) |
1901: Main St, Padbury |
| Wife |
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| Wife's Address (last known) |
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| Notes |
member of St John Ambulance; Padbury Church Choir. Wrote letter to Bucks Advertiser in 1915 denying rumour that he had gone insane |
