Chailey Parish Magazine notes in December 1918 that Private J Gadd is serving with the 9th Royal Sussex Regiment.  This information is then repeated monthly up to and including the final published roll call in July 1919.

 

J Gadd is almost certainly G/7968 Pte John Gadd; this service number falling within the allocation of numbers issued to 9th Battalion men. 

 

He may be the same John Gadd who appears on the 1901 census as a five year old born in Dallington, East Sussex and living in the same village with his parents John and Louise Gadd and his eleven year old sister Edith. 

 

 

Sources and Acknowledgements

 

• 1901 Census of England and Wales
• Chailey Parish Magazine
• The National Archives: Medal Card Index