Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the only son of John Rupert Fitzmaurice and his wife Isabel, who was the daughter of the late Herbert Bennion of Weeford, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. John was educated at Shrewsbury School where he was Head Boy (on the modern side) and a Sergeant in the O.T.C., he passed first in England and Wales for the Preliminary Chartered Accountants Examination, receiving the society’s prize. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion King’s Own Shropshire Light Infantry on the 23rd November 1917 and served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the 27th December 1917 until he was reported wounded and missing after the fighting near St. Quentin on the 25th March 1918, and was assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date. John was unmarried.