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Pte. John McMullen
British Army 1st Btn. Border Regiment

(d.1st Jul 1916)
John McMullen enlisted at Workington, Cumberland and served in the 1st Battalion, the Border Regiment. He was killed in action on the 1st July 1916 along with 194 men and 7 officers on that first day in the Battle of the Somme. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals.
John was born in Jarrow 1889. In the 1911 census he is living at 29 Glasgow Street, Barrow in Furness with his Uncle's family and is 21, working as a General Labourer in the Brass Foundry at the shipyard.

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