John Thomas DIAPER

1889 - 1917  (28 years)

• Name	John Thomas DIAPER
  Birth	Jun 1889	Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	466FDBBE9FCA4A12B3EC99BB0A7494677F85
  Death	30 Oct 1917	Flanders   [2]
  Notes	1911 census: at 29 Waterford Rd, Fulham, London SW (1 room) (all DIAPER), John (head, 22, married, gas fitter, born Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk), Victorine (wife, 24, married 2 years, 1 child, living, born Paddington, London) and John (son, 1, born Marylebone, London). John and Victorine had another son in 1911. John Thomas Diaper was killed in action in Flanders on 30 October 1917 and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial at Passchendaele, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium (source findagrave.com). John had been seving in the 3rd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), Regimental number 253604 (source UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 at ancestry.com). Sons John and Norman were discharged from the Northumberland Street Workhouse, St Marylebone on 7 June 1918, at their own request. John had been admitted on 6 June from the infirmary. Norman was discharged again on 20 September 1918.
  Person ID	I1353	Folkestone, Kent
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2025

  
  

  Family	Victorine Amy FROSTICK,   b. Sep 1885, Paddington, London d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Dec 1909	Willesden RD   [3]
  Children	1. John Alfred DIAPER,   b. Mar 1910, Marylebone, London d. Yes, date unknown   2. Norman Douglas DIAPER,   b. 25 Oct 1911, St Giles RD d. Yes, date unknown   3. Stanley DIAPER,   b. Mar 1913, St Marylebone RD d. Yes, date unknown   4. Gertrude May DIAPER,   b. Dec 1914, Willesden RD d. Yes, date unknown   5. Charles William DIAPER,   b. Sep 1916, St Marylebone RD d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F457	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] BMD index, Q2 1889 Bury St Edmunds 4a/738. (Reliability: 3). [S265] findagrave.com. [S36] BMD index, Q4 1909 Willesden 3a/542. (Reliability: 3).