Mutton/Mutten, J V
JOHN VICTOR MUTTON
Remembered with honour Etaples Military Cemetery: Plot LXVIII, Row B, Grave 9.
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died. Unfortunately, John’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Alice Ann (nee HIGH) MUTTON of Reedham, Norfolk, and the late John MUTTON; husband of Margaret Brown Smith (nee INNES) MUTTON of Watford.
His parents married 20 October 1883 at St John the Baptist, Reedham. John died 1895 in the Brimingham district aged 35. Alice remarried 1901 in the Ticehurst, Sussex, district to James REEVE, and died 1939 in the Acle, Norfolk, district aged 74.
John was born 2 May 1886 in Halvergate, Norfolk, and baptised 6 June 1886 at St John the Baptist, Reedham. He married 1908 in the St George Hanover Square, London, district; they had one child.
On the 1891 Census, he lived in Reedham, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1901 Census, a page aged 14, he lived in Broadwater Down, Kent. On the 1911 Census, a butler aged 24, he lived in Camberley, Surrey, with his wife and one child.
Service number
604473Rank
GunnerUnit
H.Q., 158th BrigadeRegiment
Place buried
Date of death
15/05/1918Age at death
32Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)