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Rank : Private

Army Number : 40898

Unit : 9th Bn

Biography :

Known as Jack his home address given as Dyke, Lincolnshire. Enlisted at Lincoln. Served with the 9th Bn during World War One. Killed in action France and Flanders campaign 16.3.1917, aged 21. Formerly 25385 (sic) North Staffordshire Regiment. He is commemorated on Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Information from another source:

Grantham Journal Saturday 21st April 1917

Mr and Mrs Wass, Dock Furrows, Bourne, wish to thank all kind friends for the kindness and sympathy shown in their great trouble.

Grantham Journal Saturday 28th April 1917

The many friends of Pte Jack Wass, of Dock Furrows Farm, son or Mr and Mrs Geo. Wass, will learn with regret of his death in action on March 16th, as a result of being hit with a bomb. The deceased soldier joined the Leicestershire Regiment on May 13th 1916. His brother George Wass, who is also serving, has been invalided to England, and is now in hospital in Sussex.
The records relating to his mother being sent his effects after death in June 1917 it would also show that it was possible he was serving with the 1st battalion Leicestershire regiment although this posting does not appear on his records and could be a mistake on that paperwork as we can find no other reference to a posting.

By 1921 the family had moved from Dock Furrows farm to live at 49 Dyke. George is now working as an agricultural labourer for Brocton Wadsley, a farmer of Dyke. Sarah was undertaking domestic duties and we see that the only children left at home were daughters Sarah, working as a cow keeper for village farmers and Florence May, who was working as a land Worker for John Henry Clifton of Bourne. Whilst step son Charles Henry Fowler was a single man, basket maker and working on. his own account.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

in memory of private John Thomas William Wass, service number 40898. 9th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, who died on 16th March 1917, aged 21. Son of George and Sarah Wass of Frank's yard, Morton, Bourne, Lincolnshire. remembered with honour Loos Memorial Panel 42 to 44.

Place of Birth : & Toft & Lincolnshire

Date of Death : 16.3.1917

Place of Death : & & France

Period of Service : 1910s

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : & & France