John Thomas Bond

Age 33        Married with 3 children

Private 25542
1^st Bn., Border Regiment

Killed in action on
Saturday 19^th May 1917

John was born in Sabden and attended Sabden County School.  His family were active members of the Baptist Church and Sunday School.  When John was eleven the family moved to Haslingden, Lancashire.  After leaving school he went to work as a weaver at Messrs Tomlinson’s Plantation Mill, Haslingden.  John married and lived with his wife at 7  Haughton Road , Helmshore.

In 1915 John enlisted in the army and, after a training period spent in England, he was posted to France.  In June 1917 Mrs Bond received notice that her husband was posted as missing in action.  She had an anxious twelve months wait until she received official news that John was presumed killed in action on the Saturday 19^th May 1917.  The couple had three children, the eldest being eleven.  John was never to see the youngest as she was born after his last leave home. 

John Thomas Bond has no known grave, he is remembered on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. 

In Sabden he has not been remembered on either the School or Church Plaques.