John was born in 1889 in Chelsea, London, to George, and Anna Bryant, in 1901 the family were living at 2 Longridge Rd, Kensington, and his mother kept a lodging house. John enlisted in Eastbourne on the 21th June 1905 in the 17th Lancers, previously employed as a barman, serving in Scotland and India.
On mobilisation John was attached to the 2nd Life Guards, his medal card shows he arrived in France on the 21st August 1914 two months before the 2nd LG’s arrival as a regiment, why he should have been in France before the regiment is a mystery, as his service record has not survived the blitz during WWII when the records office was bombed.
John died from wounds to his right knee in No 14 General Hospital Boulogne on the 22nd November 1914 and he was buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, I. B. 16. France.
Sources:
17th Lancers Regimental Magazine ‘The White Lancer'
2nd Life Guards War Diary’
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