John Edward Mallett

A Private with the 15th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion, John died on 5th of September 1918 aged 20.

John was born at Lowestoft on 22 June 1898, a son of John and Elizabeth Alice Mallett. Between 1901 and 1911 his family lived at 60 Cambridge Road. John attended Church Road School until 1 February 1905 when he joined Saint Margaret’s School. Later his parents lived at 64 Sussex Road. 

John enlisted in the Army at Culford, Suffolk. He joined the Suffolk Yeomanry, service number 2182, and was posted to his regiment in the Middle East. In 1917 the Suffolk Yeomanry became the 15th Battalion Suffolk Regiment and John was renumbered 320243. On 7 May 1918 his battalion arrived in France. He was killed in action during the advance to take Larris Trench, and other objectives, near Templeux-la-Fosse, north-east of Peronne.