John Marshall Glover
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John Marshall Glover was born in Barton in Fabis, Nottinghamshire, in 1891. he was the only son of James Glover a lime quarry labourer and Ellen Glover née Marshall of 5 Steeple Row Loughborough , his father James was born in 1851 at Barton in Fabis he died in 1910 aged 61 yrs, they were married in 1889 in Barton in Fabis. John's father was a farm labourer who subsequently became a labourer in a limestone quarry and his mother was a hosiery seamer. John had three sisters Kate, Edith and Jane and between 1891 and 1901 the family moved from Barton to Loughborough Road, East Leake. After John's father died in 1910 at Loughborough aged 61 yrs 1911 his widowed mother moved to 5 Steeple Row, Loughborough, with her youngest daughter Jane. In the 1911 census hsi widowed mother was living at 5 Steeples Row, Loughborough, she is shown as being 54 yrs and a widow, she is living with her daughter Jane 14 yrs an elastic weaver.
On 4th January 1909 John, a labourer, attested at Loughborough and on 9th January joined the 1st Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment as Private 8608. He was stationed at Shorncliffe, near Cheriton, Kent, for a year and then sent to Aldershot. On 15th August 1911 he was found fit for service in India and subsequently posted to the 2nd Leicesters. On 27th November 1911 he sailed for India on the HMT Dongola, arriving there on 2nd January 1912. He remained in India until October 1914 and served in various locations including Madras, Wellington, Bareilly and Ranikhet. When war broke out the 2nd Leicesters were brought from India to France as the British Battalion of the Garhwal Brigade of the 7th Indian Division. They arrived in Marseilles on 11th October 1914 and travelled north to the war zone. They were one of the units chosen to spearhead the allied assault at Neuve Chapelle (10th-13th March 1915).He
John had been promoted to the rank of Corporal in August 1915, but this new position was short-lived. He died on the 25th September, the first day of the Battle of Loos.
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