TUCK Harry. Driver, 58365, A Battery, 98th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He was wounded in Salonika and died in Malta on the 23rd October 1918. He was born in Cookham and enlisted at Reading both in Berkshire. Son of Edward and Bethia of 6 Ventnor Cottages, Cookham Dean, Berkshire.
SUCKLING John. Lance Corporal, 58920, 1st Garrison Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 5464 Middlesex Regiment, died 26th October 1918, aged 22 years. He was the son of John and Eliza Kate Suckling, of 10 Mount Road, Haverhill, Suffolk.
Some notes from what remains of his army records which are badly damaged. He joined up aged 19 years and 9 months on the17th April 1916. He lived with his parents at 26 Henry Road, Chelmsford. He was posted to the Middlesex Regiment and after his training embarked for France, from Folkestone on the 24th July 1916 disembarked at Boulogne the same day. He went sick on the 8th November 1916with bronchitis and was admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance. On the 16th November 1916 he was transferred to 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, from there on the 13th November transferred to 4th General Hospital. He was invalided to England on the 17th November and admitted into St Luke's War Hospital, Halifax. He was discharged from hospital and given sick leave from the 20th to the 30th December 1917 to his home at 10 Mount Road, Haverhill, Suffolk. He was transferred to the 1st Garrison Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment on the 8th October 1917 the same day he embarked for Malta. While in Malta he fell ill again with bronchitis. He was admitted into Military Hospital, St Andrews where he died of influenza and bronchopneumonia.
JONES Meredith. Corporal, 545674, 78th Sanitary Section, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died of illness 30th October 1918, aged 35 years at Military Hospital, Valletta, Malta . The husband of Margaret E. Jones, of Elm House, Rhyl, North Wales.
All at rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot A Row XX. Grave 08..
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