Timothy John Sterry

A Private with the 10th Battalion, Timothy died on 29 June 1916, at the age of 32.

Timothy was born at Lowestoft on 15 July 1883, a son of Charles and Jane Sterry. In 1891 his family lived at 213 Clapham Road, Lowestoft, and by 1901 the family home was at 42 Queens Road, Lowestoft. By 1911 they had moved to 30 Park Road, Lowestoft. Timothy worked as a fish labourer. 

Timothy attested at Lowestoft on 28 February 1916 and was immediately placed on the Army Reserve. He was mobilized on 1 April 1916 and on 10 April was posted to the 10th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. On 3 May 1916 he was admitted to Castle Mount Section Hospital, Dover, with tuberculosis. He died in hospital some weeks later. Technically he was discharged from the Army on 9 June 1916, being medically unfit, but was afforded a Commonwealth War Graves headstone. 

Timothy is remembered on the war memorial at Saint Margaret's Church and the Town Memorial as 'G T Sterry - Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment'.