Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Walter Colver, a colliery clerk, born 1867 in Ravenstone, Leics., and his wife Eliza, born 1872 in Thringstone, Leics. John Frederick was born in 1898 in Coalville, Leics., he had one sibling, a brother Arthur Henry, born 1896 in Coalville, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at Ebur Villas, Park Road, Coalville, Leics. In April 1911 John was a scholar and was residing in the family home at 47, Park Road, Coalville, Leics., together with his father, now a commercial clerk, his mother and siblings, Arthur, Gladys Maud, born 1905, Grace Evelyn, born 1907 and George Walter, born 1908, the latter three siblings were all born in Coalville, Leics.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday September 27th, 1918

LOCAL CASUALTIES

Mr and Mrs Walter Colver, of Park Road, Coalville, have been informed by the War Office that their second son, Signaller John Frederick Colver, of the East Yorkshire Regiment, died of wounds on September 10th. He would have been 20 years of age next month. The young soldier was one of Mr T. Frith’s old boys of the Belvoir Road School, and won a scholarship at the Ashby Grammar School, after leaving which he became a clerk in Lloyd’s Bank at Coalville. He took a great interest in the Boy Scout movement, and was a patrol leader in the Coalville Troop.

Coalville Times article, Friday September 10th, 1920

IN MEMORIAM

Colver – Always remembered, my old chum, Signaller Fred Colver, killed in action, September 10th, 1918.

“One of the best.”

Frank Eric Onions.

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 2/6/2018