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Surname: LOVICK
Forename(s): John Edward
Place of Birth: Bacup, Lancashire
Service No: L/17356
Rank: L/Bombardier
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Field Artillery
Battalion / Unit: 'B' Battery 170th Brigade
Division: 31st Division
Age: 22
Date of Death: 1918-03-27
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: XXXI. J. 12A.
CWGC Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: BARNOLDSWICK, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
John Edward Lovick was the son of Henry and Elizabeth Ann [Lizzie] Lovick, née Hartley, and was the brother of Private Roland Lovick (51995) (q.v.). Their father was born at Todmorden, Yorkshire and mother at Bacup, Lancashire.
1901 Bacup, Lancashire Census: 45, Plantation Street - John Edw. Lovick, aged 5 years, born Bacup, son of Henry and Elizabeth Ann Lovick.
1911 Bacup, Lancashire Census: 3, Venture Street - John Edward Lovick, aged 15 years, born Bacup, son of Henry and Elizabeth Ann Lovick.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Gnr John E. Lovick, L/17356, R.F.A. Theatre of War: (3) Egypt. Qualifying date [for 1914-15 Star]: 29.12.15. Deceased.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: L/Bdr John E. Lovick, L/17356, R.F.A. Dead 27.3.18.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Gnr (paid L/Bdr) John Edward Lovick, L17356, B/170 Bde R.F.A. Date and Place of Death: 27.3.18 France. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Mother Sole Legatee - Elizabeth A. £24 12s. 3d.
John and Roland are commemorated on the Bacup Roll of Honour Board.
A short biography of John is included in: ‘Barnoldswick – A small Town’s part in conflicts 1800 to 2014’ by Peter Ian Thompson (2014).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
LOVICK, Bombadier J.R., aged 22 years, R.F.A., 207, Gisburn Road, [Barnoldswick], died of wounds March 26, 1918.
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L/Bombardier John Edward LOVICK
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Field Artillery
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 31st Division
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L/Bombardier John Edward Lovick
Courtesy of Frances Roberts, née Alty
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Courtesy of Frances Roberts, née Alty
Etaples Military Cemetery
CWGC Headstone
Etaples Military Cemetery
CWGC Headstone - personal inscription
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12 April 1918
Bombardier J. R. Lovick, Barnoldswick
Letters received by Mrs. H. Lovick, 207 Gisburn Road, show that the death of her eldest son, Bombardier John Edward Lovick, R.F.A., took place on the 26th March. He was wounded whilst taking despatches to headquarters, and died in the train on the way to the base hospital. The chaplain wrote stating he had been buried at Etaples. Bombardier Lovick was 22 years of age and a native of Bacup. He went to France in January, 1916.
19 July 1918
KILLED WHILE SLEEPING – Barnoldswick Widow's Double Sacrifice
Mrs. Lovick, 207 Gisburn Road, Barnoldswick, received on Saturday morning the distressing news that her second son, Private Roland Lovick, K.O.Y.L.I., had been killed in France. This is the second bereavement she has suffered within the space of four months, her eldest son Bombardier J. E. Lovick, R.F.A., having been killed on March 27th. Private R. Lovick, who had been in France just over three months, was killed on the 2nd inst., six days before attaining the age of 19. In a letter of condolence to Mrs. Lovick, Captain Leach writes:– “He was sleeping in bivouac in our Company Camp, with two other young soldiers, when a shell burst near them, and they had no knowledge whatever of what happened. This was in the early morning of July 2nd.”
It is a pathetic coincidence that the older brother met his death on the same day the younger left England. Private Lovick was formerly a weaver at Messrs. Nutter’s Bankfield Shed.
09 August 1918
LOVICK – In loving memory of Bombardier J. E. Lovick, R.F.A., killed in action March 27th, 1918, also Private R. Lovick (brother), killed July 2nd, 1918.
We pictured their safe returning,
We longed to clasp their hands,
But God has postponed the meeting,
Till we meet in the Better Land.
From Grandad and Grandma, Uncles and Aunts, Barnoldswick.
04 July 1919
LOVICK – In loving memory of my dear sons, Bdr. J. E. Lovick, killed March 27, 1918, and Pte. Roland Lovick, killed July 2nd, 1918.
We look around, but see them not;
We list, but hear no more
The welcome of the well-known voices
That cheered our hearts of yore.
From Mother, Sisters and Brother, 207 Gisburn Road, Barnoldswick.
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12 April 1918
LOVICK – Died of wounds, March 26th, Bombardier John Edward Lovick, R.F.A., son of Mrs. H. Lovick, of 207, Gisburn Road, Barnoldswick, aged 22.
12 April 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Died of Wounds
Letters received by Mrs. H. Lovick, 207, Gisburn Road, Barnoldswick, report the death of her eldest son, Bomdr. John Edward Lovick, R.F.A., on March 26th. He was wounded whilst taking despatches to headquarters, and died in the train on the way to the base hospital. The chaplain wrote stating he had been buried at Etaples. Bdr. Lovick was 22 years of age, and a native of Bacup. He went to France in January, 1916.
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