John married Grace Monier Williams 30 Jan 1913 and after WW1 brought his young family up at Pightley House. Lieutenant Colonel Ingram (RFA DSO) had three sons, Major A M Ingram MC RA (Killed in action at Irrawaddy 1945), Captain H N Ingram Somerset Light Infantry, and 2nd Lieutenant T H Ingram RA (invalided out 1945).
He was a Churchwarden so would have known Rev. F. Guy Graham well.
'Jack' Ingram was a keen huntsman, like his father and grandfathers going back several generations.
He was a good tempered, humorous type.
| Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spaxton Suboutstation | Operator | Unknown | 20 Jul 1944 |
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Royal Artillery.
A professional soldier he served in WW1 in the Royal Artillery serving on the Northwest frontier in Mesopotamia and on the Western front. He was awarded the Victory, British and 1915 Star medals. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel 10 Aug 1921, he left the Army while in India. He was awarded Distinguished Service Order in the Kings Birthday Honours 1919 for distinguished service in connection with military operations in France and Flanders.
In 1939 he was a part time ARP warden.
He purchased Pightley House after leaving the Army in India after WW1.
Pat Ingram, his Grandson recalled; My grandfather spent most of his early years in the military on the North West frontier in India, taking part in the 1908 campaign against the Pathans, and then spending the first phase of the Great War in the various incursions into India that followed the onset of hostilities. He was given a camera for his 18th birthday in 1899 and I have some fuzzy pictures he took of his battery in action around 1915. He was then involved in the Mesopotamia campaign, in the attempted relief of Kut el Amara and then in the later phase of the campaign involving in particular the fighting at Istabulat in April 1917, taking the battery into action at the gallop for some particularly intense close quarter use of the guns against trenches. He was then in France for the Battle of 100 Days (after escaping a torpedo attack in the Med).
