JOHN WILLIAM GERRING
John William GERRING was born in 1895 in Fringford. His parents James & Jane GERRING registered his birth at Bicester in the last quarter of 1895.
The 1901 census shows John, 5 living in Main Street, Fringford, with his parents James, 39 a road contractor, his mother Jane, 38 and siblings, Charles, 15, an agricultural labourer, George, 13, also an agricultural labourer, Edith, 12, Elizabeth, 10, Thomas, 7, and Edward, 2.
By 1911 John’s mother Jane had died and his father had married Sarah Marriott, making him a step brother to Charles Thomas Marriott, another Fringford Casualty. John was now living at 36 Manor Road, Teddington, as a 15 year old house boy domestic, for DR Harold Davidson and his wife Edith.
John initially joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps as Private R35487 and later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps as Private 84598.
He was killed in action on the 21st December 1917.
He is buried in Windmill British Cemetery, Monchy-Le-Preux, France. He is the only one of the Fringford fallen to have a known grave.
John’s father James was the church sexton and lived in old cottage on the site of Rosemary Cottage.
John William GERRING was born in 1895 in Fringford. His parents James & Jane GERRING registered his birth at Bicester in the last quarter of 1895.
The 1901 census shows John, 5 living in Main Street, Fringford, with his parents James, 39 a road contractor, his mother Jane, 38 and siblings, Charles, 15, an agricultural labourer, George, 13, also an agricultural labourer, Edith, 12, Elizabeth, 10, Thomas, 7, and Edward, 2.
By 1911 John’s mother Jane had died and his father had married Sarah Marriott, making him a step brother to Charles Thomas Marriott, another Fringford Casualty. John was now living at 36 Manor Road, Teddington, as a 15 year old house boy domestic, for DR Harold Davidson and his wife Edith.
John initially joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps as Private R35487 and later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps as Private 84598.
He was killed in action on the 21st December 1917.
He is buried in Windmill British Cemetery, Monchy-Le-Preux, France. He is the only one of the Fringford fallen to have a known grave.
John’s father James was the church sexton and lived in old cottage on the site of Rosemary Cottage.