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The Roll lists his address as 66 New England, and states he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal. It also records the death of his brother Gladstone.
(CWGC records that Private John Henry Wren, regimental number 9438, died aged 21 on 14/3/1915 serving in the 2nd Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial in France. They record him as the son of the late Mr & Mrs J Wren.
His birth was registered in Bradford District in 1894 as John Henry Wren. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents John and Mary at St Paul's Parade in Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was in Northampton, serving as a Private in the Northamptonshire Regiment; his parents were living at 66 GN Cottages, New England, Peterborough.
The Medal Rolls record that John was sent to France on 6/11/1914. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on or since 14/3/1915, and that his father John was his legatee).