| Notes: | MMP. Awarded the 1915 Star, Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France, 10/7/1915. Formerly Pte. 1/1 Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry. No. 2464. He was born in St Andrew's, Penrith enlisted and resided in Penrith. No inscription on gravestone.
Information from CWGC form Information as to location of graves: he was first buried in Poppelsdorfer Friedhof, Bonn, Germany
Info from Army Register of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929. Died, Illness. Left £32.10.13 to his Mother Sarah Ann Doran, Railway Hotel, Penrith.
Info from pension card: John Edward Mason, No. P/16436, A/L/Cpl, MMP, 23/2/1919 died from influenza, claimant Mrs Sarah Ann Doran, mother, born 1857, Railway Hotel, Penrith, Mother, born 1857. Claimant died 12/2/1921 transfer of pension refused, 126/3/1922.
John Edward Mason.
Extract from the Penrith Observer 7 March 1944. 25 YEARS AGO.
His death presumably from pneumonia occurred at Bonn, Germany of Corporal John E Mason, Military Mounted Police, younger son of the late Mr. Richard Mason and of Mrs Doran, Railway Tavern, Penrith. |
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