John Trevor Griffin was born in 1917 in Derby and was the son of John and Georgiana Griffin. He married Edith Anne Fenton in 1940 and lived in Drury Lane, Derby. 

He enlisted into The Sherwood Foresters on a DPE engagement.   He first saw action in France and was evacuated at Dunkirk, although the battalion John was serving with is unknown. 

He was then transferred to the 14th Battalion, with whom John saw action at the battle of El Alamein in 1942. After the fall of the German army in North Africa, John and the 14th Battalion went on to serve at Anzio in Italy. Sadly, this was where he was Killed in Action by an enemy mortar bomb, which made a direct hit on his shelter, on the 21st of March 1944. He was aged 27 years.  John is buried in the Anzio Beach Head Cemetery IV.D.9.