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Olive Euphemia Crisp
- John Hetley Wybrants
- Robert Hope Wybrants
- Joan Wybrants
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John Holman Wybrants of Hendon, 2nd Lt.
- Born: 1878, Wincanton, Somerset, England
- Christened: 29 Aug 1878, Wincanton, Somerset, England 1
- Married: 12 Jun 1906, All Saints St. Johns Wood, St. Marylebone, London, England 2
- Died: 30 Jul 1918, Military Hospital, Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France 3 5
 Research Notes:
John Holman son of Robert Bath Wybrants of Wincanton, physician, and Caroline Brunton (baptismal record)
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At the time of the 1901 England Census John H. Wybrants, aged 22, born in Wincanton Somerset, art student (Royal Academy), was with his widowed mother at 26 Well Walk, Hampstead London.
At the time of the 1911 England Census John Holman Wybrants, aged 32, born in Wincanton Somerset, artist (painter), and wife of 5 years Olive Euphemia, aged 24, born in Highgate Middlesex (mother of 2 children), were living at 19 Reynolds Close, Golders Green, Hendon Middlesex. With them were sons (born in Hendon) John Hetly (3) and Robert Hope (2).
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Studied painting at the Royal Academy Schools from 25th July 1899 to July 1904. In 1903 he was awarded the 2nd silver medal for a painting of a head from the life and in 1904 the 2nd Silver medal or a painting of a figure from the life. He exhibited once at the Royal Academy in the annual exhibition of 1910. (Cat. 666 "Isabel").
He served as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers during WW1 and died on 30th July 1918, aged forty. He is buried in Normandy. 4
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....On 13th July 1916 he enlisted in the 5th Battalion The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) whose Headquarters were at 130 Bunhill Row Finsbury. He gained a commission to 2nd Lieutenant on 29th January 1918 joining the 3rd Battalion The London Regiment. During the July of 1918 the 3rd and 7th Battalions of the Regiment were in the Somme region of France after a big German advance during the Spring of 1918 during which the Germans almost overwhelmed British and Commonwealth troops. By July 1918 the British were advancing through the old 1916 Somme battlefields and heavy fighting took place around Albert, although the awful casualties of 1916 were not repeated. John Wybrants was detached from his unit - the 3rd Battalion and was transferred to the 7th Battalion. On 20th July the 7th Battalion relieved the 3rd who were in the line west of Albert in the village of Baizieux. Fighting erupted next day and between 21st July and 26th July the Battalion sustained one officer and ten other ranks killed and six officers and 27 men wounded. One of the officers badly wounded was John Wybrants and he was evacuated to the military hospital at the small seaport of Le Treport near Dieppe where he died of his wounds on 30th July 1918 aged 40. He is buried in Mount Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, grave V. L. 9. John Wybrants and his mother left Wincanton around the time of his father's death in 1890, the family were held in high regard in the town and the fact that John was born at Bayford he was included on the Roll of Honour in Wincanton Parish Church.... 5
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John Holman Wybrants of Lyndhurst 27 Bridge-lane Hendon Middlesex, second-lieutenant 3rd London regiment, died 30 July 1918 in France. Probate London 22 July 1919 to Olive Euphemia Wybrants, widow, and Henry Swayne Drewry*, solicitor. Effects £1183 14s. 4d. 3
* 1st cousin
Marriage Information:
John married Olive Euphemia Crisp, daughter of William Fitz John Crisp and Jane Euphemia Bell, on 12 Jun 1906 in All Saints St. Johns Wood, St. Marylebone, London, England. (Olive Euphemia Crisp was born on 12 Jun 1886 in Highgate, Middlesex, England, christened 10 Jul 1886 in All Saints, Highgate, Haringey, Middlesex, England, and was buried 4 Sep 1975 in Kent, England.)
Marriage Notes:
A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Mr. John Holman Wybrants, son of the late Robert Bath Wybrants, M.A., Cantab, M.R.C.S.E., of Wincanton, Somerset, and of Mrs. Caroline Wybrants, of Well Walk, Hampstead, and Olive Euphemia Crisp, grandchild of the late Robert Hetley Crisp, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Lond., some time of Whittlesey, Cambs, and of the late William Cown Heron Bell, formerly of Dromara, County Down, and sometime of Castlemaine, Victoria, and Highgate, Middlesex.
Clifton Society (Bristol), Thursday, 3 May 1906, p. 9
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John Holman Wybrants, age 27, bachelor, artist, resident of 26 Well Walk Hampstead, son of Robert Bath Wybrants decd, M.B., and
Olive Euphemia Crisp, age 20, spinster, resident of Marlborough Road, daughter of William Fitz John Crisp, architect
Married after Banns
Witnesses: William Fitzjohn Crisp, F. E. Fitzjohn Crisp, Hope Crisp
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