John Lovatt was born in Oakham, the eldest son of John and Elizabeth Lovatt. The family later moved to Elizabeth's home willage of Cottesmore. At the age of 14 John joined the Midland Railway as an apprentice. He served with the 1st/4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment and died on 4 October 1918 from typhus while he was in Persia [Iran]. He is buried in Tehran War Cemetery, grave IV.B.16, with a poignant inscription: 'Too Dearly Loved in Life To Be Forgotten in Death.' His widow Lilian Muriel Lovatt was living in Evesham after the war. John is not on any war memorial in Rutland and is not mentioned in George Phillips' Rutland and the Great War.
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