Commemorated:

1. Memorial:Bedford House CemeteryEnclosure No.2 III. C. 13.
2. Book:The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918Pg.128
3. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour29C GQS
    

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Family :

Son of William Llewellyn, of Ince; husband of Eleanor Llewellyn, of 39, Gloucester Gardens, Bayswater, London.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: Anti-Aircraft Battery RFA 

Action : The Battles of Ypres 1917 (Third Ypres, or Passchendaele) 

31 July - 10 November 1917. By the summer of 1917 the British Army was able for the first time to fight on its chosen ground on its terms. Having secured the southern ridges of Ypres at Messines in June, the main attack started on 31st July 1917 accompanied by what seemed like incessant heavy rain, which coupled with the artillery barrages conspired to turn much of the battlefield into a bog. Initial failure prompted changes in the high command and a strategy evolved to take the ring of ridges running across the Ypres salient in a series of 'bite and hold' operations, finally culminating in the capture of the most easterly ridge on which sat the infamous village of Passchendaele. The Official History carries the footnote ?The clerk power to investigate the exact losses was not available? but estimates of British casualties range from the official figure of 244,000 to almost 400,000. Within five months the Germans pushed the British back to the starting line, which was where they had been since May 1915.

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Albert Victor No. 1773 E.C.East Lancashire

Initiated
Passed
Raised
15th May 1917
19th September 1917
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John is listed under the register of Albert Victor Lodge No. 1773 at Pendleton, where he was initiated and passed in 1917, the year he died. He is recorded as a 32 year old "Manager" from Pendleton. There is a note of war service followed immediately by "Died on Active Service 10.10.17," not 5 months since his joining the Craft.


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