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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nHe was a conductor on the omnibuses in Ladywood and in 1938 he married Beatrice Ingram and they had a daughter Patricia born in 1939 but she was orphaned when “Beat” died in 1945. <\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nHe was his mother’s favourite, and he was one of five boys and two girls, so she had a lot to choose from. His sisters remember him as an avid book reader, he loved biographies and he was handsome and kind and made a friend of everyone who met him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n John’s mother Lucy and his older sister Lily visited the grave not long after the war and appear to be part of a large group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Williams was born on 20 August 1913 in Ladywood Birmingham to Ernest Edward Williams and Lucy Fisher. He was a conductor on the omnibuses in Ladywood and in 1938 he married Beatrice Ingram and they had a daughter Patricia born in 1939 but she was orphaned when “Beat” died in 1945. He was his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15333,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21649","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21677,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21649\/revisions\/21677"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/unnamed-1024x533.png\")
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n“TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE COMES A SUDDEN END.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
HE DIED AS HE LIVED: EVERYONE’S FRIEND.”<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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