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Pte John Feetham, 15868, 6th Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment, was killed in action in France on October 27th, 1916. He was aged 36.
His commanding officer wrote to Mrs Feetham that her husband was killed at 9.40 in the morning by a German shell which burst over him while he was in a trench, killing him instantly.
John Feetham had married Soiphia May Ann Taylor in Hatfield in 1908 and they had three daughters. They had lived at Pepperstock for several years and he was a woodman on the Luton Hoo Estate.