By1911 the family were living in Macclesfield Road and John was an apprentice blacksmith at Cranage aged 15. We don’t know when John signed up but we know that he was serving abroad In August 1915. By October 1915 he was in hospital in the UK doing well. In November 1915 he was out of hospital and home for a few days but still not fit for duty. He returned to his regiment and it was reported in March 1916 that he had been wounded and was recovering in Alexandria, Egypt. In October 1917 there were reports that he was seriously ill. The absent voters list of 1919 indicate that he was a lance corporal with the Cheshire Regiment at the end of the war but still in hospital. John had married Annie Burgess in August 1919 and he died in the Congleton area in May 1978 aged 83.