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George Frederick Allsop
Private 38012
2nd Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment
George Frederick Allsop died on Sunday 2nd December 1917, and is remembered on the TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born c1899 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents Harold Arthur Allsop & Eliza (Lizzie) Allsop. Harold Allsop was a Butchers Slaughterman, who was living on Mansfield Road, Sutton, in 1901. He married Lizzie Brookes in 1898. By the time of George's death they were residing at 52 Mason Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
George Frederick was the cousin of George William Allsop (also remembered on Sutton's War Memorial), as their fathers were brothers.
Notts Free Press, 3rd May 1918
KILLED IN ACTION - We regret to state that Mr A. E. Allsop, Kirkby Road, has received an intimation that his only son, Pte. George Wm. Allsop, has been killed in action. Barely 19 years of age, Private Allsop had been in France only a fortnight. Concerning Private George Frederick Allsop, son of Mr H. Allsop, "Ashlands", who has been missing since December, we are sorry to state that no further news has yet been received.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Allsop, Private George Frederick, Sherwood Foresters
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Lincolnshire Regiment’
ALLSOP
George Frederick. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Notts, enlisted Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield). 2nd Bn.,
Lincolnshire Regt. Private 38012,
Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 2nd December 1917.
Researched by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes