Lance Corporal 14663 Alexander John MUIR

Lance Corporal 14663 Alexander John Muir{gallery}L/Cpl A J Muir{/gallery}aka John Alexander Muir
92nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Formerly Pte 6968 Leicestershire Regiment
Died of wounds in France and Flanders, 22nd May 1916, aged 31

• Buried: Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Somme, France. Grave I.D.111
  
• Awarded: 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medals.
  
• Son of James Burton and Caroline Muir
• Husband of Kate Muir [nee Brown] Married Jan Qtr 1913 at Nuneaton [GRO 6d 965]
  
• NNWFHS Memorials: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments | Stockingford
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for L/Cpl Muir
• Sucrerie Military Cemetery
• Machine Gun Corps

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born c1885 at Madras, India
• Lived at 273 Arbury Road, Nuneaton 1901. His father was a bricklayer b Scotland and his mother, Caroline, was born in India.
• Recorded as just John Muir. 
• Lived at 273 Queen’s Road, Nuneaton. Name listed as John Alexander Muir [1911]
  
• Lived at 139 Arbury Road, Nuneaton [1916]
  
• Employed as a coal miner / hewer [1911]
  
• Enlisted at Leicester. Arrived in France on 20 Sep 1914