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John PACKARD

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Surname: PACKARD

Forename(s): John

Place of Birth: Settle, Yorkshire

Service No: 202376

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)

Battalion / Unit: 2/5th Battalion

Division: 59th (2/North Midland) Division

Age: 20

Date of Death: 1917-09-26

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 99 to 102.

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: SETTLE, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

John Packard was the son of William Hardacre and Adelia Packard. William was born at Long Preston, Yorkshire and Adelia at Dore, Derbyshire.

1901 Settle, Yorkshire Census: Albert Hill - John Packard, aged 3 years, born Settle, son of Adelia Packard. [Adelia and her children were living with William Hardacre - she is described as a house keeper domestic.]

1911 Settle, Yorkshire Census: Albert Hill - John Packard, aged 13 years, born Settle, son of Adelia Packard. [Adelia and her children were living with William Hardacre - she is described as a house keeper.]

The British Army Service Record for John Packard exists but may be incomplete.

Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:

PACKARD, John, Sherwood Foresters, Albert Hill, killed in action Sept. 26, 1917.

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Private John PACKARD

Private John PACKARD

Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)

Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)

Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 59th (2/North Midland) Division

Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 59th (2/North Midland) Division

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Surname: PACKHARD

Forename(s): John

Born: Settle, Yorks

Residence:

Enlisted: Settle

Number: 202376

Rank: Private

Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)

Battalion: 2/5th Battalion

Decorations:

Died Date: 26/09/17

Died How: Killed in action

Theatre of War: France & Flanders

Notes:

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Surname: PACKARD

Forename(s): John

Country of Service: United Kingdom

Service Number: 202376

Rank: Private

Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Unit: 2nd/5th Bn.

Age: 20

Awards:

Died Date: 26/09/1917

Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Adelia Packard, of Albert Hill, Settle, Yorks.

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19 October 1917

ANOTHER SETTLE ‘HERO’

It is with regret that we have to record the loss of another Settle hero, Private John Packard (Albert Hill), of the Sherwood Foresters, who was killed in action on the Western Front on September 26th. Only 20 years of age he joined up at the age of 18, and after undergoing his training crossed over to France in February last.

In civil life he was employed by Messrs. Thos. Clark and Sons, provision merchants, and was highly esteemed for his integrity and his cheerful and obliging nature. He received his first knowledge of military training as a member of the local Cadet Company, in which he held the rank of Colour-Sergeant. Much sympathy is felt for his mother and brothers and sisters in the great loss by the death of this gallant young soldier. The sad news was conveyed to his mother in a letter from his Commanding Officer.

27 September 1918

PACKARD – In ever loving memory of Private J. Packard, Sherwood Foresters, who was killed in action September 26th, 1917, aged 20 years.

In a far and foreign graveyard,
Where the trees their branches wave,
Lies a loving son and brother
In his cold and silent grave.
We mourn for him in silence.
And his name we often call;
But there is nothing left to answer
But his photo on the wall.

“May his reward be as great as his sacrifice.”

From his loving Mother, Sister and Brothers.

PACKARD – In loving memory of Private John Packard, who was killed in France September 26th, 1917.

Not forgotten by his brother Fred.

PACKARD – In fond remembrance of dear Jack, who was killed in action 26th September, 1917.

“Till we meet again.”

From his pal, Billy Pugh, Settle.

PACKARD – In loving memory of Private Jack Packard, Sherwood Foresters, killed in action September 26th, 1917.

“Greater love hath no man than this – that he lay down his life for his friends.”

From his Pals P. C., E. J., and T. C., Settle.

24 September 1920

PACKARD – In ever loving memory of Private J. Packard, Sherwood Foresters, killed in action September 26th, 1917.

He loved not war, but at his country’s call
He made the grand surrender, leaving all –
Friends, plans, ambitions, all his hope of years,
His willing hands will toil no more.

From W. P., E. J., E. C. and P. C., Settle.

23 September 1921

PACKARD – In ever loving memory of a dear son and brother, Pte. J. Packard, Sherwood Foresters, who was killed in action Sept. 26th, 1917, aged 20 years.

“Too dearly loved to be forgotten.”

From his loving Mother and Sister.

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19 October 1917

PACKARD – Killed in action, Sept. 26th, Pte. John Packard, of the Sherwood Foresters, son of Mrs. Packard, of Albert Hill, Settle.

19 October 1917

ANOTHER SETTLE HERO

It is with regret that we have to record the loss of another Settle hero, Pte. John Packard (Albert Hill), of the Sherwood Foresters, being killed in action on the Western front on Sept. 26th. Only 20 years of age, he joined up at the age of 18, and after undergoing his training crossed over to France in February last. In civil life he was employed by Messrs. Thos. Clark and Sons, provision merchants, and was highly esteemed for his integrity and his cheerful and obliging nature. He received his first knowledge of military training as a member of the local Cadet Company, in which he held the rank of colour-sergeant. Much sympathy is felt for his mother and brothers and sister in the great loss by the death of this gallant young soldier. The bad news was conveyed to his mother in a letter from his commanding officer, Capt. J. W. N. Stobbing, which read as follows:– “I am deeply sorry to have to inform you that your son, Pte. J. Packard, of my company, was killed in action on Sept. 26th. Please accept from me my deepest sympathy with you and your family in your loss, and let me express my regret at not being able to write at once. Your son was one of my best men, and a soldier in whom I could always rely to do his duty when called upon. Quiet and unassuming, he was in his own way one of the most thorough men under my command and I shall feel his loss to my company deeply. He was killed instantly by the bursting of a heavy shell close to him during an attack in which the company was taking part, and 1 am glad he suffered no pain. He was buried close to where he fell. The place, I am afraid, I cannot disclose yet, but I can assure you that his gave is marked. I only wish I could comfort you with more information, but I imagine you know the limits of one’s correspondence. Offering you once more my most sincere sympathy with you in your great trouble.”

04 January 1918

SETTLE’S FALLEN HEROES

Memorial Service at the Parish Church

A memorial service for the Settle soldiers who have fallen in the war was held at the Parish Church last Sunday afternoon. There was a large congregation, and the service was conducted by Rev. W. E. Linney (vicar). The hymns ‘God of the living in Whose eyes,’ ‘Jesus lives,’ ‘On the resurrection morn,’ and ‘ O God our help in aged past’ were sung, and the ‘Last Post’ was sounded at the close of the service by two of the local Cadets. The organist (Mr. F. Lord) also played appropriate music as the congregation assembled and left the church.

The Vicar, in the course of his sermon, said they were met to remember the Settle soldiers, men, and boys – some indeed little more than boys – who had laid down their lives for the country at the war, whether during the year which was just drawing to a close or in the earlier stages of the conflict. When he asked them to remember those heroes that day, he knew that he was asking them to do what they were always doing. They were their own dear ones united to many of them by ties of blood – husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, as well as friends. How could they forget them? Were they not reminded of them day by day by the gaps in their home circles, which could never again be filled by them? They all desired in their hearts that God would bless and keep them, and give them peace. and happiness. The Vicar then read the following list of the Settle men who had laid down their lives:– John Edward Bell, Geo. S. Belles, Fredk. Baldwin, John Barrett, Robert Bateson, William Bradley, Frank Bulcock, George R. Bullock, Herbert Clark, John Cokell, Edward Ellershaw, Jas. Ewart, Wm. Ewart, Fredk. Frost, Harold Goss, Alfred Gower, Joseph Lord, John Morphet, John Packard, Chas. Peachey, Thomas Howarth Preston, Albert Ralph, Thos. Stackhouse, George Edward Turner, Derwent Turnbull, Wm. Troughton, Harry Walton, John Edward Wilson, Ernest Wooff, and Robert Wooff. Proceeding, the Vicar said they had a responsibility with regard to those men. They owed them a debt, and he trusted and believed that they were wishful to do all that they could to repay it. “ Our lives are being saved by their death. If we have any future before us on the earth it is because they gave up their futures to secure it. Their right to survive was as good as our own. Many of them would have been of far more use in the world than we can hope to be. The future stands to be only poorer for our surviving in their stead. We are debtors to them for all they have given us. To the future think of all it has lost in them.” How were they going to pay the debt, and in paying it to honour their heroic dead? Surely there could be but one answer – to live to give effect to their ideals. When they were asked what those ideals were, they might be well put in the words of Bishop Walshaw How’s hymn written for the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, “To make the world a better world for man’s brief earthly dwelling.” If Prussian militarism should gain the ascendancy the world would be scarcely a fit place to live in. What they wanted was the triumph of right and liberty. That was the task they had begun, and many of them, fired by the enthusiasm of a noble cause, literally went singing to their death. The old life which had no loftier aim than a high standard of material comfort had been felt to be unsatisfactory. To ardent youth the higher spirit of self-sacrifice, which was the spirit of Christ, beckoned onward with irresistible attractiveness, and they followed the gleam. They had yet to complete the great task to which they dedicated themselves. That was the way they could honour the memory of their fallen heroes, and with confidence that they had not died in vain.

A collection taken on behalf of the Red Cross Society realised £5 15s.

27 September 1918

In loving memory of Pte. John Packard, who was killed in France Sept. 26th, 1917.

Not forgotten

By his Brother Fred.

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