BORN HULL 1885. SCULCOATES. SON OF ROBERT BRIAN MIDFORTH (1852-1924) & MIARAH TINSLEY (1859-1940), OF HULL AND NORWICH. ONE OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN, SEVERAL OF WHICH DIED IN INFANCY. LIKE HIS FATHER, HE WAS AN ORGAN PIPE MAKER. HE MARRIED ALICE MAY KING (1886-1972), AT NORWICH, ON 01/08/1910. HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN, LIVED AT 60 BURY STREET, UNTHANK ROAD, NORWICH.
HE ENLISTED IN NORWICH. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 28178, ESSEX REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 10/02/1917, AGED 31. HE IS BURIED AT VERMELLES BRITISH CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF A.M. MIDFORTH NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE R.I.P.”.
First name:
JOHN BRIAN
Regiment:
Military Number:
40160
Rank:
Private
Date Died
10/02/1917
Place died:
Vermelles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
31
60 BURY STREET, NORWICH, NORFOLK, UK
