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Worthing Gazette 13th October 1909.
"Death of Mr John Harbottle"
The death took place at Hampstead last week of Mr John Harbottle, only son of the late Mr William Harbottle, both father and son having acquaintance with Worthing of many years duration. Mr John Harbottle was 45 years of age and his remains were interred at Heene on Thursday.
Census and miscellaneous information
14/15 Chester Terrace, Marylebone.
William 41yrs retired merchant, Mary 43yrs, Emily 9yrs, John 6yrs, Margaret 3yrs, Isabella Hogg 42yrs visitor Sister in Law and 7 servants
5,6,& 7 Arlington Villas, Brighton.
John aged 16, boarder, student at school run by Rev. George Cotterill.
24 O'Connell Street, Sydney, NSW.
John Harbottle.
Census taken on April 5th.
53 Station Road, Bexhill.
John aged 36, living on own means. Helen B aged 40. John aged 4. Jean Clarke aged 16, niece. Plus 1 servant.
Captain John Harbottle Royal Leicestershire Regiment 1st Battalion. Died 21st March 1918 aged 21 years
John Harbottle was in 1895 in Woodchurch, Kent to Australian born, John Harbottle and his Scottish born wife, Helen Baird Wilson. John was born in the same year that his elder brother, William Wilson, died aged 2 and was buried at Heene. William was buried in the plot next to his paternal grandfather, William (1829 – 1888) who lived at 3 Heene Terrace.
John was brought up in Bexhill, Sussex and lived at 53 Station Road in 1901.
In 1914 he was cadet at Sandhurst and enrolled in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant. In 1915 he served in France and was injured in 1916. By 1918 he was an Acting Captain with ‘D’ Company in Frémicourt near Bapaume France as recorded in Captain Samuel Towers Hartshorne MC’s war diary on 21st March 1918. Captain John Harbottle died that day.
John is commemorated on the Arras Memorial Bay 5 and is also remembered on the headstone of his mother and father at Heene Cemetery EW Row 1 Plot 46. Inscription: In loving memory of John Harbottle born May 3rd, 1864, died October 3rd.1909. Also of Capt. John Harbottle 1st Batt. Leicestershire Regiment killed in action March 21st, 1918 aged 21 years. "The Lord knoweth them that are His" 2 Timothy ll.19 Helen Baird wife of John Harbottle died July 22nd 1923.