J Gleave Lance Corporal

[AllanUK]

Is there anything on the back of the photograph?

[lukeelmore20]

thats the back

[rosie99]

There is a May Gleave with a brother Jack (bn c1887) both born Blunham, Bedfordshire

Have you discounted them

[AllanUK]

You found and posted just before me. The only other May that I could find had a brother John (Howard Newberry Gleave) which I think can be discounted.

[lukeelmore20]

I did find jack Gleave but I thought it wasn’t him but it might be and sadly it’s not John because he got killed and he has his picture on find my grave and it doesn’t look like the man in my picture

[ShaunJ]

The formality of the inscription suggests that "Sister May" could be a nun, and not a relative. His former schoolteacher perhaps.

[AllanUK]

The formality of the inscription suggests that "Sister May" could be a nun, and not a relative. His former schoolteacher perhaps.

Very good point ShaunJ -- if he had sent it to his sister, I'm sure he would have signed it something like 'your loving brother John / Jack whatever'

[ShaunJ]

"Sister May" .... possibly a nursing sister?

I'm also seeing lots of newspaper mentions of a Sister May, prominent in the St George's Hall Methodist mission in SE London, and later (from December 1915) in Methodist circles in Bexhill-on Sea.

[lukeelmore20]

So it must not be that Jack Gleave then