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As recorded in Descendants of Thomas Yea of Yea, Wiveliscombe, a Tiverton newspaper announced the death in France on 11 March 1915 of Private John Yeo of the Devonshire Regiment – see War deaths.
John Yeo, the second of nine children of George Yaw and Maria Warren, was born at Heavitree. His service record shows that he enlisted at Exeter at the age of 17; he was still living in Heavitree and had been working as a labourer. His father is recorded as George Yeo of Neddicott, Upton Pyne.
John served in South Africa and India and was discharged, but was later recalled for service in France. He has been mistaken for another John Yeo, whose dates were also 1871–1915, but who died at sea off the coast of Turkey.
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See also William Yoe of the Devonshire Regiment.