John Andrews

John P. A. Andrews

Service no. 23258

Lance Corporal, Essex Regiment, 9th Battalion

Died on 3 August 1917, aged 20

CWGC: "Son of Tom Coombs Andrews and Emily Andrews, of 645A, Wandsworth Rd., Clapham, London."

Remembered at Monchy British Cemetery, Monchy-le-Preux, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

John Andrews, a 14-year-old schoolboy in 1911, lived at 645a Wandsworth Road (a tenement building, no longer in existence) with his parents and sister. His father, Tom Andrews, 43, was a detective sergeant from Marnhull, Dorset; his mother, Emily Andrews, 43, was born in Edmonton, north London. Audrey Andrews, John's sister, was 15. Both children were born in Wandstead, Essex.