ROPER J. W.
John William Roper
Private 21690
1st Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
John William Roper died on Friday 23 November 1917, Age 23, and commemorated on the TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born at Forest Side, Sutton on 22nd May 1894, to parents John Henry Roper and Elizabeth Ann (formerly Naylor). He was their eldest son.
  Notts Free Press, 28th December 1917 |
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Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 4th January 1918
Roper - In loving memory of our dear son and brother, Private J. W. Roper, 1st Sherwood Foresters, who was killed in action, in Belgium, on November 23rd 1917, aged 23 years. He bade no one his last farewell, He waved his hand to none; His spirit fled before we knew, That from us he had gone. - From his loving Mother, Father and family, and Fiancee Hilda.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War
1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
JOHN WILLIAM ROPER. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 1st Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 21690, Killed in Action France & Flanders 23rd November 1917.
Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes
