Individual Details
John Wears Gray
(March Quarter 1894 - 29 September 1918)
Events
| Birth | March Quarter 1894 | Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England | |||
| Census | 31 March 1901 | 14, Dene Terrace, Gosforth, Northumberland, England | |||
| Census | 2 April 1911 | 14, Dene Terrace, Gosforth, Northumberland, England |  | ||
| Military | From Abt 1915 | 5132, later 350197, private, 10th Battalion, Royal Scots, later 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry | |||
| Will | 22 June 1917 | witnesses: D. Sutherland, [J. H. Adams?] | |||
| Death | 29 September 1918 | Targelle Ravine, Villers-Guislain, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France | |||
| Burial | Aft 29 September 1918 | Targelle Ravine British Cemetery, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |  |
Families
| Father | Charles Gray (1864 - 1907) |
| Mother | Sarah Wears [Gray] (1866 - 1944) |
| Sibling | David Gray (1891 - 1975) |
| Sibling | Mary Florence Gray [Hill] (1895 - 1978) |
| Sibling | Charles Alfred Gray (1898 - 1979) |
| Sibling | Jane Evelyn "Evelyn" Gray (1901 - 1994) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Edna Gray (1907 - 1996) |
Notes
Burial
David Murdoch Hislop, the paternal grandfather of the journalist and broadcaster Ian Hislop, served in the Highland Light Infantry alongside John Wears Gray, and also fought at the battle of Targelle Ravine. In the first series of the BBC family history programme, 'Who Do You Think You Are?', Ian Hislop travelled with his family to Villers-Guislain and retraced the footsteps of his grandfather in the battle on 29 September 1918. In a sequence filmed at the Targelle Ravine cemetery, the camera pans along the line of white Commonwealth gravestones, and John Wears Gray's headstone can be seen on screen.Endnotes
1. 1911 Census: England and Wales, Northumberland, Gosforth, enumeration district 10, schedule number 351, Sarah Gray [household]; image copy, "1911 England Census", database with digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/35052611:2352 : accessed 23 March 2023); citing The National Archives, Kew, archive reference RG 14, piece 30868.