Remembered with pride and honour
my grandma's cousin, John James Salt.
SALT, Corporal John J, who was killed in action in France on 12 September, was the younger son of Mrs J Salt of Paeroa, late of Tauranga and Te Aroha. He was 19 ½ years of age and had seen two years service in France. He enlisted on his 17th birthday, with the 14th Reinforcements and was attached to the Rifle Brigade, except for a period when he was with the 6th, Hauraki, Company. He received his corporal’s stripes for work in the Messines battle. He was wounded twice in the head but only on the latter occasion was he away from his unit and then only for a few days. Educated at the Paeroa High School, he afterwards became a clerk in the railway office there. His grandfather, Sergeant James Salt of the Inniskillen Dragoons, saw service in the Crimea and later in NZ.
John is remembered on the Grevillers Memorial, in Pas de Calais.
