BORN BORO BRIDGE, YORKS 1899. FIFTH SON GEORGE & ELIZABETH BLYTH, OF 149 LIME STREET, HULL. (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A HORSE DRIVER. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN AND THE YOUNGEST OF FIVE BROTHERS. LIVED IN OTLEY.
ENLISTED IN KEIGHLEY, YORKS. SERVED WITH THE 4TH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT (SPECIAL RESERVE BATTALION). KILLED IN ACTION ON 10/04/1918, AGED 18. COMMEMORATED ON THE PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, TOM BLYTH, 245389, 2ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, WAS KILLED, ON 14/07/1918, AGED 28.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 14/07/1919. HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE ST MARKS STREET MEMORIAL.
First name:
JOHN
Military Number:
42662
Rank:
Private
Date Died
10/04/1918
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
18
149, LIME STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
