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Sgt. John Abraham Glover
British Army 4th Btn., D Coy. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:47 South View, Thurnscoe East, near Rotherham, Yorkshire
(d.19th Oct 1918)
John Glover was born on 10th August 1891 in Bolsover, Derbyshire, the son of Thomas and Alice Glover. His mother Alice died on 19th October 1893, his father Thomas was left to bring John and his brother Isaiah up alone. Thomas eventually remarried Elizabeth Anglesea and moved to Clowne in Derbyshire. When John was in his late teens he and his brother Isaiah moved to Thurnscoe near Rotherham to live with their uncle William Glover at Shepherd Lane, Thurnscoe. All were employed at Hickleton Main colliery.
John married Eliza Davies at Bolton on Dearne church on 25th December 1914. It was around this time that John joined his local regiment the 2nd/5th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment enlisting at Wath upon Dearne as a territorial. His regimental number given as 3825 (later to change to 241361). He was promoted to Corporal. He and Eliza had a son, John Thomas born on 5th February 1916 at No. 10 York Terrace, Thurnscoe. John joined his battalion on summer camp in June 1916 at Flixton Park and volunteered for overseas service some time after this.
The Battalion sailed from Southampton to Le Havre on 5th January 1917 on transport ships and were accommodated after disembarkation at No. 2 rest camp. John fought through all the major engagements with his battalion against the Germans in France. Due to the heavy losses of the battalion in November 1917, it was decided to disband the 2nd/5th York and Lancaster's and draft the remaining members into 2nd/4th York and Lancaster and 1st/4th York and Lancasters. John joined D Company as Sergeant of the 1st/4th York and Lancasters.
During the German spring offensive John and his unit were captured by the enemy at Neuve Eglise on 15th April 1918. He was recorded as a prisoner of war at Friedrichsfeld, Wessel, Rhineland, Germany. No word was heard of John by his family until October 13th 1918 when they received a postcard from him through the Red Cross. His family were later informed that John had died while a prisoner of war of Spanish Flu on 19th of October 1918 (by strange coincidence on the same date as his mother) whilst in a war hospital at Erquelinnes in Belgium. He is buried in Erquelinnes Communal Cemetery with a number of his comrades, all interred by the Germans.
His name is remembered on the war memorial in Thurnscoe. John's wife went on to remarry on 2nd March 1920 to Bernard Moulton of Thurnscoe, but sadly died of a miscarriage on 25th March 1920. John and Eliza's son John Thomas was brought up by other family members and went on to be a headmaster of a school in Wakefield.
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