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Sjt. John Robert McCormack
British Army 330th Brigade, D Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Jarrow
(d.21st Oct 1917)
John Robert McCormack served as a Serjeant with 330th Brigade D Battery, Royal Field Artillery.
He was aged 23 when he died on 21st October 1917.
Born in Jarrow in 1894 he was the son of Michael and Elizabeth McCormack of 34 High Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census John Robert McCormack age 18 Driver in Coal Mine in Shipyard is listed as living with his mother Elizabeth McCormack and family at 110 High Street, Jarrow.
His older brother Michael Austin McCormack was also one of the fallen.
John is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.