John Gilbert Vause
The name John Gilbert Vause is not the first name listed on the monument.
The monument is in Lawnswood VW cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
There are 309 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
John Gilbert Vause was buried in 1916. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
John Gilbert Vause age is given as 23.
John Gilbert Vause calculated year of birth is 1893.
John Gilbert Vause is listed on the GPR grave numbered 106131.
John Gilbert Vause is listed as the son of Frederick William Vause on the grave monument.
John Gilbert Vause has the record number 229909 within the GPR person name database table.
There are 3 images available for the monument listing John Gilbert Vause (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against John Gilbert Vause record:
John, known as Jack, was a lieutenant in the Leeds Pals, having joined them in 1914. In 1916, after a spell in Egypt, he went with the regiment to France, ready for the Big Push, the Battle of the Somme. On 1st July 1916, as an acting captain, he was killed in the first attack, along with a large proportion of the Pals, and his body was never found. His name appears on the family grave at Lawnswood, the Thiepval Memorial, the Leeds University Memorial, and as a scholarship at the School of Medicine.