Private 18903 John William Hoverd

• Griff Colliery Memorial Griff Colliery Memorial
• Lonsdale Cemetery Lonsdale Cemetery
• South Lancashire Regiment South Lancashire Regiment
• Griff Name Plaque Griff Name Plaque
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• Buried: Lonsdale Cemetery, Somme, France. Grave III.Q.5
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Joseph and Rebecca Hoverd
• NNWFHS Memorial: Griff Colliery | Nuneaton Other Regiments | Stockingford
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Hoverd
• Lonsdale Cemetery
• South Lancashire Regiment

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born Apr Qtr 1896 at Hook Norton, Oxford
  
• Lived at Giles Cottages, Great Tew, Oxford [1901]
  
• Lived at Bacons End, Coleshill [1911]
• Lived at 7 John Street, Nuneaton [1915]
  
• Employed as a Farm Hand [1911]
• Employed as a Miner (at Griff Colliery) [1915]
  
• Enlisted 26 April 1915 at Nuneaton. Arrived in France with BEF on 29 Sep 1915
• John joined the Battalion on the same day as Pvt Harold Hodson and they died on the same day in the Battle of the Somme