Private 18909 John Thomas LAPWORTH

8th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment

Killed in action in the Battle of the Transloy Ridges, Somme, France and Flanders, 1st October 1916, age 24

Commemorated Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 7A and 7B

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Son of Thomas and Sarah Ann (nee Hazeldine) Lapworth, 4 Bryans Row, Bridge Street, Chilver Coton, Nuneaton

Links to Relevant Information

CWGC Page for Private Lapworth

Thiepval Memorial

South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)

Other Information

1892 his birth was registered in the second quarter, Nuneaton

1901 Census living on the canal, on a barge at Stockingford, Nuneaton with his parents and sister. His father was a Boat Man

1911 Census living on the canal, on a barge “Phyllis & William” , at Napton on the Hill