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Spr. John Richard Bothick
British Army 126 Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.28th Sep 1917)
John Richard Bothick served with the 126th Field Company Royal Engineers.
He was aged 34 when he died on 28th September 1917.
He was the husband of Mary Davinson Bothick (nee Pearson) of 133 High Street Jarrow, where he is recorded as living withhis wife and children on the 1911 census, he was then age 27, working as a Ship Plate Rivetter in the Shipyard
He was born and lived Jarrow and enlisted in Aylesbury.
John is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (plaque on west face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.