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Before the war John, the eldest, assisted his father James who was a butcher. He had four younger brothers James, Robert and Frederick.
He enlisted in Morecambe and was drafted out to France in May, 1915.
Exactly a year later sustained a bullet wound in the neck.
He had his first leave at the beginning of 1916, and was invalided back home wi…