John Robert Lovatt
View John Robert on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
39057
Rank:
Private
Service:
Hampshire Regiment
Origin:
Date of birth:
1880
Date of death:
04 October 1918
Age at Death:
38
Known information
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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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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