Died of wounds near the end of World War I. He was in the 4th Batallion, Canadian Machine gun Corps, with the rank of Private.

John was living in in Room 300 of the Bank of Hamilton building, Hamilton, Ontario at the time of his recruitment, and was a lineman. He was 5’5&1/2”, weighing 138 pounds, with a dark complexion, blue eyes and brown hair. It mentioned that he had had a vaccination in his left arm in 1917, and that his “left nostril partially blocked. Now under treatment.” His medical exam took place on October 24, 1917, and he was called up January 30, 1918. He left Canada by sea on February 21,1918, and arrived in England on March 4.

He arrived in France on August 19, 1918. He joined a unit there on September 3. He got a compound fracture in his left arm from a bomb on October 2, and he was transported to the Denmark Hill Hospital in London England on October 5. There, they discoverd that his ulnar nerve on injured arm was severd, causing paralysis and loss of feeling in part of that arm. By November 7 he was listed as “Dangerously ill”, as he had also caught the Spanish Flu and had double pneumonia. He deterioated rapidly, passing away at 6 AM on November 10, 1918.

His last will and testament (signed May 31, 1918) bequeathed everything to his mother, Bertha.