John Richard Ormerod

Assistant Paymaster
H.M.S. "Hungerford"

Royal Naval Reserve

The Commonwealth War Graves Debt of Honour Register records that John Richard Ormerod died on 6 April 1916, whilst serving as an Assistant Paymaster with the Royal Naval Reserve.

John is shown as serving with H.M.S. "Hungerford".

He is buried in Suez War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt (Grave Ref. C. 20).

Suez was an important hospital centre during the First World War with two Indian general hospitals, two stationary hospitals and casualty clearing stations based there at various times.

Initially, burials took place in a special plot in the Protestant cemetery but the War Memorial Cemetery was established nearby in 1918, and these graves were transferred there, together with some from other burial grounds.

A John R. Ormerod is commemorated on the war memorial in the Masonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool, Merseyside.