DAFT A.
Alfred Dennis Daft
Lance Corporal
306787
2nd/8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Alfred Dennis Daft died on Saturday 7th April 1917, aged 24 years, and was buried in VADENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, MAISSEMY, Aisne, France.
He was born c1893 at Papplewick, Notts and was the son of Herbert and Sarah Daft. His father was a native of Bingham, Notts and was a Foreman Plate Layer at Skegby on the 1901 census.
Notts Free Press, 27th April 1917
Notts Free Press, 5th April 1918
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
ALFRED DENNIS DAFT. Born Papplewick, Enlisted Stanton Hill (Resides Skegby) 2/8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Lance Cpl 306787, Killed in Action, France & Flanders 7th April 1917
Research by Heather Faulkes and Helen Wilson
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