Notts Free Press, 20th September 1918
CROFTS T. E.
Thomas Edward Crofts
Private 154679
34th Bn., Machine Gun Corps (Inf)
Notts Free Press, 20th September 1918
Thomas Edward Crofts died on Saturday 31 August 1918, Age 21, and was buried in the LA CLYTTE MILITARY CEMETERY, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was baptised at St Phillip's Sneinton on 20th January 1897 to parents Thomas & Martha Crofts. Thomas Crofts was a Labourer at the Gas Works, and a native of Nottingham. His wife Martha gave her birthplace as India on the 1901 census.
In 1918 the family were living at 73 Mason Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham.
Notts Free Press, 20th September 1918
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Crofts, Private Thomas Edward, M.G.C.
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Machine Gun Corps.’
CROFTS Thomas Edward. Born Nottingham, enlisted Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts). Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), Private 154679, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 31st August 1918.
Research by Heather Faulkes
