John Webb Bocking 2nd Lieutenant - 3rd Bn. King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry attd 2nd/4th Bn. London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers  Killed in action on 24 th  April 1918, aged 22 No known grave but is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. Panel 59 and 60. Rev. John Bocking from Derbyshire married Yorkshire born Sarah Ryder in 1893 at Lambeth and had 10 children. Henry and Maud (the two youngest) were born in Gnosall. The others were from Fenton, Stoke on Trent.  John Bocking became vicar at Gnosall following the death of Rev. John Till in 1901 John Webb Bocking became 2nd Lieutenant - 3rd Bn. King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry attd. 2nd/4th Bn. London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Awarded Croix de Guerre He was killed in action on 24 th  April 1918. There is no known grave but is he commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. Panel 59 and 60

Pozieres Memorial, Somme Historical Information The POZIERES MEMORIAL relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, and the months that followed before the Advance to Victory, which began on 8 August 1918. Pozieres is a village 6 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert. The Memorial encloses Pozieres British Cemetery which is a little south-west of the village on the north side of the main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres. On the road frontage is an open arcade terminated by small buildings and broken in the middle by the entrance and gates. Along the sides and the back, stone tablets are fixed in the stone rubble walls bearing the names of the dead grouped under their Regiments. It should be added that, although the memorial stands in a cemetery of largely Australian graves, it does not bear any Australian names. The Australian soldiers who fell in France and whose graves are not known are commemorated on the National Memorial at Villers- Bretonneux.