RIPLEY AND HEANOR NEWS 7th APRIL 1916 PTE JOHN AINSWORTH OF CODNOR 2nd Leicester’s Indian Expeditionary Force, Worked on Britain Pit Bank prior to enlisting last June and lived at Jessop St. After five months training he was drafted abroad, and writing home from the trenches recently to his wife and children, intimated that although he could not tell them where he is it took about five weeks for a letter to reach him. He had received and acknowledged the receipt of a parcel from Mr Watson of Loscoe Fields, on behalf of the Butterley Co and was highly delighted with it. RIPLEY AD HEANOR NEWS 19th MAY 1916 PTE JOHN AINSWORTH 2ND LEICESTERS INDIAN EXPEDITIONERY FORCE Whose death was officially reported by the war office on Thursday last, to the widow, who resides with her four children at Jessop St. He was killed in action in the Persian Gulf on April 20th. Prior to enlisting Ainsworth worked on Britain Pit Bank, and had been in the Army just about ten months the last five abroad.