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John Bonell
British Army 13th Battalian Yorks&Lancs
from:Pudsey Yorkshire
(d.28th June 1918)
John Bonell was the eldest son of a family of six, living in Pudsey Yorkshire. He was born in 1886. His father ran a 'wet fish shop' and tragically caught typhoid fever and died in 1898 aged 33. The family worked in the local woollen mills and the younger children were cared for by their widowed grandmother. In 1901 Census John was working as a 'piler" aged 15 and his brothers aged 14 and 13 were working as bobbin offer and doffer in the mill.
He was a bachelor unmarried when he was in the army. His service in the First World War resulted in his death on 28th June. The action was centred at Vieux Berquin on the border of Belgium and France. The objective that day was to take La Becque Farm which was completed. The war was to end only months later. My Great Uncle's body was never found.