John Ashton
Date of birth: 1880
Date of death: 26.12.1915
Area: Pontefract
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Family information: Son of William and Catherine Ashton
Rank: Private
Service number: 2901
War Service
John was a Private in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, serving in the 5th Battalion. He died on 26th December 1915 aged 35 and was buried at Hospital Farm Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. His mother had already died by this time.
Hospital Farm was the name given to a farm building used as a dressing station. The cemetery was used particularly in 1915 and in 1917 by regiments and batteries engaged in the fighting around Ypres.
Family information
John Ashton was born in 1880 to parents William and Catherine Ashton of Smythe Street, Pontefract. In1911 he was working as a pony driver and had siblings Mary and William.