Notts Free Press, 20th November 1914
GREGORY T.
John Thomas Gregory
Rifleman 9576
1st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Notts Free Press, 20th November 1914
John Thomas Gregory died on 27th October 1914, aged 27 years, and was remembered on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Known as Thomas, he was born on 13th July 1887 at Forest Lane, Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents Thomas & Eliza Gregory. Thomas Gregory was a miner, who married Eliza Kendall at St Mary, Sutton-in-Ashfield in February 1876. On the 1901 census the family were living on Station Road, Sutton, where Thomas was employed as an Errand Boy, at 13 years.
Details of his First Class Cricket career can be found at CrickInfo.
Notts Free Press, 20th November 1914
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
The King's Royal Rifle Corps’
GREGORY
John Thomas. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Notts, enlisted Notts., (resides West Hampstead). 1st Bn.,
King's Royal Rifle Corps., Rifleman
9576, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 27th October 1914.
Research by Heather Faulkes
