John Edwin Lumb

Pte.L/11660, 6th Battalion. Royal West Kent Regiment.

Formerly 17303. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.

Born: 1893 in Stainland.

Son of Edwin (a Stone Waller) and Sarah Ann.

Brother of Francis. Willie, Mary L, Grace, Wilfred and Fred S.

Address: Brook House, 19 Clough Rd. Golcar.

Previously: Fairview Cottages, 136 Slades Rd. Golcar.

Occupation: Woollen Weaver at Pearson Bros. Golcar.

Enlisted on 21st June 1915

Killed in action: 7th September 1918. Aged 25.

Buried at Fins New British Cemetery. 8B. 13.

Fins is a village on the road between Cambrai and Peronne in the Somme region of France.

John served in Italy and France. He was invalided home on one occasion with pneumonia, and later with debility caused by being cut off from his regiment and lost in No Man's Land for a week without food. After recovering he returned to France where he was killed.

Named on the family grave in Pole Moor Graveyard. He had been a pupil at Clough Head School and attended Sunnybank Chapel as a boy then Westwood Church.

His name appears on the Roll of Honour in St. John's Church, Golcar.