Army
Sutton, John Wisdom Paige
John Wisdom Paige Sutton
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: 5th Company, 3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Later with the 2nd Battalion.
Parents: Mr John & Mrs Phoebe Sutton
Address: 71 Vale Road, St Leonards
Other Info: Died of wounds on 9th May 1915. According to CWGC, John was 20 when he died. He is remembered at Le Touret Memorial, on Panel 20 & 21.
Published: October 1914 & June 1915
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This man was baptised 1 May 1895, St Leonards church, when the family was of 65 Marina, his father a lodging house keeper. The family was there in the 1901 census, his father 48, born Hastings, his mother 41, born Yorkshire. All three children were born in St Leonards, and there were two servants.
His father John Wisdom Sutton was at 71 Vale Road in the 1911 census, again a lodging house keeper, and again with the three children. “Jack” was 16, clerk to a solicitor’s.
The father died in 1921 at 43 Alma Terrace, the next street over from Vale Road. His widow died at the same address in 1926.