Private John Stephen Bryan

Army Number: 20331

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire. Son of Timothy and Fanny Bryan, of 7 Field Drive, Shirebrook, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting on 2nd December 1914 at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

He was posted 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 9th December 1914 and went to Gallipoli 1st July 1915. He suffered Enteritis, 2nd August 1915 and was taken to 21st General Hospital at Alexandria, Egypt, on Hospital Ship Galeka. On the 2nd October 1915, he was invalided to England on Hospital Ship Letitia.

He was posted to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and went to France on 1st February 1916. He sustained gunshot wounds to both buttocks on 30th October 1916, was treated at 48 Casualty Clearing Station, Grove Town, Meaulte, France and set to England on Hospital Ship Asturias.

He returned to France on 2nd March 1917 and was wounded in the face on the 30th July 1917. He was admitted to 18th General Hospital, at Camiers, France and sent again to England on Hospital Ship Stad Antwerpen, 4th August 1917.

He was transferred to the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 15th October 1917 and went to France on 28th November 1917 and was posted to the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment 5th December 1917. He died of wounds on 11th September 1918.

Buried: Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France. Plot 3. Row E. Grave 40.

His brother Private Fred Bryan, 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.