John Wainwright
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Son of John and Lucy Sophia Wainwright, of North End, South Kelsey, Lincoln. He was born in 1889 in Somerby, Lincolnshire. he had 5 siblings. In the 1901 census he is 12 years of age and living with his father John a farmer and his first wife Emily at White Wood farm,Somersby.
John Wainwright and was a Private in the 5th Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment pre-war Territorial Army unit which recruited across North Lincolnshire, and he had probably joined up at the Drill Hall in Spital Terrace, Gainsborough, before the war. When war broke out he enlisted at Brigg . The Lincolshire Regiment were heavily involved in the Battle of St Quentin during the 21st to 25th March 1918, when a sudden German assault by overwhelming numbers forced the British to move back in the area of Poziers and Somme. One of the Lincolnshire Battalions involved was reduced to six officers and eighty soldiers, from about five hundred all ranks. John Wainwright died on 23rd March 1918, aged 29, service number 45841 and his grave/memorial reference panel 29 and 30 at the Pozieres Memorial in the Somme area of Northern France
Information on John Wainwright has been provided courtesy of the Beckingham and Saundby local history group.
