POTTER John Leonard

  • First Name(s):
    John 
    Leonard 
  • Surname:
    POTTER
  • Service Number:
    27526
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Grenadier Guards
  • Battalion:
    3rd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    23rd July 1917
  • Age At Death:
    26
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Bleuet Farm Cemetery, Belgium, Grave I. B. 4.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Husband of J. Potter, 13 York St., Stourport, Worcestershire

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

POTTER John Leonard Is Named On These Memorials

Stourport High School formerly in Stourport Boys School
Stourport Loyal Stanley Baldwin Lodge of Oddfellows
Stourport War Memorial
Stourport Wesleyan Methodist Church

Further Information About POTTER John Leonard

Son of James and Louisa Potter, husband of J. Potter, 13 York Street, Stourport.  Married Jane Bell/Ball at Stourport in March 1913.  Enlisted 12th December, 1915, age given as 24 years and 2 months.  Service papers give his address as 23 Park Road, Rounds Green, Oldbury.  Left for France in October 1916, killed in action North of Ypres.  John’s name is recorded on his parents’ headstone in Stourport churchyard, Grave H23.

An obituary for John Potter appears in the Stourport Parish Magazine for September 1917.

The whereabouts of this memorial is currently unknown.  If you have any information on its current location or any of those commemorated on it, please email me: rememberthefallen.co.uk@gmail.com

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Credits: Researched by Adrian Carter.