Private John Henry McCarthy

Date of Birth 1893
Age at Death 23
Date of Death 11 April 1916
Service Number 3711
Military Service 3/6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
Merton Address 10 Stanley Road, Morden
Local Memorial St. Lawrence Church, Morden

Additional Information

John Henry McCarthy was born in the Parish of St Lawrence in 1893. He was the son of Thomas Macarthy, a plumber, and his wife Jane who lived at 7 Crown Cottages, Morden. John was the second son in a family of six children – three boys and three girls. By 1911, when he was 17, the family had moved to 10 Stanley Road in the same parish and he was working as a milk carrier.

Private McCarthy enlisted in the Army Reserve in Kingston-upon-Thames in January 1916. He was mobilised on 1 March 1916 in the 3/6th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment which had been formed in Wimbledon and Kingston-upon-Thames the previous year. This was part of the Surrey Brigade and was attached to the Home Counties Division. His regimental number was 3711.

He was posted within the Home Counties on 7 March 1916 and at some point soon after this he contracted cerebrospinal meningitis. He died of the illness in hospital in Brighton on 11 April 1916. He is buried at the Brighton City (Bear Road) Cemetery ZHN.43.

Private McCarthy was the older brother of Donald McCarthy, they are both commemorated on a panel at the Lychgate at St Lawrence Church
which serves as the parish war memorial. Their names also appear on a brass plate in the Assembly Hall of Morden Primary School and on the Roll of Honour at Morden Baptist Free Church.
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