Sparkes J L
Name: SPARKES, JOHN LEONARD
Initials: J L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: South Lancashire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 01/09/1916
Service No: 8875
Additional information: Son of George and Emily Sparkes, of 10, Barwel Avenue, Richmond, South Australia.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 23.
Cemetery: BASRA MEMORIAL
Commemorative Roll Database
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Sparkes, John Leonard
Service Number: 8875
Rank: Lance Corporal
Unit: 1st Battalion South Lancashire Regiment
Service: British Army
Conflict: 1914-1918
Date of Death: 01/09/1916
Place of Death:
Cause of Death:
Age at Death: 28
Cemetery or Memorial Details: 38. The Basra Memorial, Iraq
Next of Kin: Son of George and Emily Sparkes, of 10 Barwel Avenue, Richmond, SA.
Notes:
1891 census
RG12/204 Folio: 30 Page: 54
9 Lamb Lane, Hackney
George Sparkes Head 29 Bethnal Green London Shoemaker
Emily Sparkes Wife 28 Bethnal Green London
Emily Sparkes Daughter 7 Bethnal Green London School
George Sparkes Son 5 Bethnal Green London School
John Sparkes Son 2 Bethnal Green London
Edward Sparkes Son 1month Hackney London
England 1901.
RG13/224 Folio: 43 Page: 24
11 Lamb Lane, Hackney
George Sparks Head 39 Bethnal Green Boot Trade
Emily Sparks Wife 38 Bethnal Green
Emily Sparks Daughter 17 Bethnal Green House Work
George Sparks Son 14 Bethnal Green paper work
John Sparks son 12 Bethnal Green
Edward Sparks son 10 Bethnal Green
Nellie Sparks daughter 5 Bethnal Green
Sidney Sparks son 3 Bethnal Green
Lillian Sparks daughter 5months Bethnal Green
Edwin Page Boarder 20 Married Bethnal Green Stone engraver
Christina Page Boarder 19 Married Bethnal Green Feather Worker (quill written over top)
Looks like John's brothers may have enlisted in the Imperial forces.
George Frederick Sparkes Enlisted Oaklands SA 31/12/1914 aged 28 Born London NOK: D Sparkes (wife)
Sidney James Sparkes Enlisted Adelaide SA 10/8/1915 aged 18 born London NOK: Emily Sparkes (mother)
Edward Charles Sparkes Enlisted Adelaide SA 20/8/1918 aged 27 born London NOK: Florence Lillian Sparkes (wife)
Edward died and is on the Roll of Honour database. His parents are listed as George & Emily Sparkes of Unley SA. It has a PDF file attached to it.
Marriages England
September 1910 Hackney 1b 900
George F Sparkes
Dorothy M Neale
It's an interesting little document. Says he had 2 brothers serve with the AIF and one brother killed serving with the British forces. Came to Australia when he was 19. (among other things).