John Glazebrook Bartle was born on the 19th of April 1911.  He enlisted into The Sherwood Foresters on the 24th of July 1940.  He transferred to several different Regiments including the West Yorkshire Yeomanry Regiment.   

John was awarded the Military Medal for his service in Burma when on the 13th of March 1945 during the attack on the village of Heitaikon, South of Maiktila, he attacked Japanese bunkers and personally cleared three, turning a Japanese machine gun on its owners killing many.  He was seriously wounded during the attack.  

After the war, John married Joyce Dobson in 1953 and lived in Newark.  He died of natural causes on the 14th of April 2000 age 88 years.