Private John Calvert served with the 10th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He was listed in the 1918 Absent Voters List for Middlesbrough, with an address of 1 Elliot Street. The listing also indicates that he was a prisoner of war.
John was wounded on 25th September 1916 and was entitled to wear a “Wound Stripe”, a piece of gold braid on the left sleeve of his dress jacket.
John was captured in Nieuwpoort (Nieuport), Belgium, on 10th July 1917. He was initially held at Dendermonde (Termonde), East Flanders, Belgium, before being transferred to Limburg an der Lahn Prison Camp and finally Dülmen Prison Camp, North Rhine, Germany, on 24th September 1917. He was officially listed as “Missing” in the War Office Daily List No. 5373, with a date of 25th September 1917.
John was released from the prisoner of war camp in Germany, arriving in England on 21st January 1919. He was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal.
John’s record from the prison camp shows his birth date as 15th December 1890, and that his mother lived at 1 Elliot Street in Middlesbrough. This means he is not the John Calvert I am looking for.
The Forgotten Uncle 