Serjeant John Baptiste Loco was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1878, in Manchester, the son of Italian-born peddler Antonio and Sarah Loco (née Smith), of Leeds. At the time of the 1911 Census, the younger Loco was working as a general labourer while living with his wife, Mary Ann, and six children at 18 Arthur Street.
Loco died on 9 May 1915, in the Battle of Aubers Ridge, while serving with the 2nd Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment on the Western Front. He had formerly belonged to the Lancashire Fusiliers and had arrived in France in April. A son, Arthur, a private in the Manchester Regiment, died during the Second World War, in 1942.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Ploegsteert Memorial.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Loco, John, cwgc.org. Retrieved 29 July 2013.