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L/Sgt John Henry Tearle
British Army 1st Btn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Hertford
(d.29th June 1915)
John Tearle was a native of Hertford, Hertfordshire and came from a very poor family. As late as 1895 he was an inmate of the Hertford Union Workhouse. It would appear the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were recruiting in Hertford and he joined them; I'm not sure when, but he was a Lance Sergeant by 1915, so it must have been a few years before WW1.
He was seriously wounded in the Battle of Gully Ravine (24-28 June 1915) and died of his wounds on 29th of June 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign. His body was left behind and no grave was ever found for him. He is remembered on the Helles Memorial at the foot of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.