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Pte. John William Ogden
British Army 2nd/5th Btn. Warwickshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.3rd Dec 1917)
John William Ogden enlisted at Jarrow and joined the 2nd/5th Battalion Warwickshire Regiment. He died on the 3rd December 1917 age 19 and is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph, St. Paul's Church and at the Cambrai Memorial at Louveral.
His Medal Card shows him awarded the British War and Victory Medals (Mutt and Jeff). It also indicates former service as No. 3/31705 with the North Staffordshire Regiment.
The 1911 census show him as the youngest son, 13 years old and a student. He has two older brothers, Frederick either 17 or 19 working in Steelworks, Robert 14 working in a mineral water company and one sister Doretta aged 16 probably helping her mother at home. His widowed mother Catherine aged 56 has married John Hutchinson 59 who works as a watchman at a blast furnace works. His natural father was John Ogden who died some years earlier and his mothers maiden name was James.
