Medals

30. Gnr. John Samuel Keartland

 

Name

John Samuel Keartland

Service number

CH 19625

Rank – including any

promotions, with dates

Private

Regiment

R.M.Li – WW1 Pensions Ledgers Description – Other Ranks Survived ref no 11/N/1277

Battalion

 

Unit

 

Postings

 

Wounds

 

Silver War Badge? (WWI)

 

PoW Info. Etc.

 

Date of Discharge

 

Other Information

 

 

Birthplace

 

Date of birth

13/06/1897

Enlisted

1915 with Royal Marines

1939

56 Lilian Road, Mitchum, Surrey

Parents

Thomas and Alice Jane Keartland: siblings, Alice 1884; Louisa 1886; Ada 1887; Florence 1891; Daisy 1893; Charles 1895; John 1897

 + address

 

Wife

Dorothy Robins b. 25/10/1902           Married 1921 Wandsworth, London

1938 Register has Keartland crossed out on Dorothy’s name and Reddington written above it also M.I.C. 17.7.1948 CNA  – Dorothy Keartland’s second husband was Frederick Reddington – married 1948

October 1972  marriage of John S Keartland to Dora R Edwards registration district Durham Western

 + address

 

Children

Patricia Keartland B. 25/10/1922 -2017; ( emigrated to Australia) Iris Keartland 1924-2005

Occupation

1939 – Omnibus Bus Driver for GPTB

1914 – Signal Lamp man, London, Brighton and South Coast Railways, 1921 his pay was £3.4s6d, he was recommended by a Mr Platt and re appointed 14/06/1920

Medals – held in

collection

Citations

UK Naval Medal Award Rolls – Star, Victory Medal and British War Medal –

Medals – others awarded but

not held in collection

 

Citations/Notes

School Admissions: admission date 27/04/1908, aged 10; Eardley Road School ( opened in 1894, became Eardley Primary School in 1951

How died – not known, at home, of wounds, killed in action

 

Date of death

July 1983

Age

86

Memorial

 

Cemetery – plot, row and grave