Notts Free Press, 1st November 1918
WOOLSONCROFT J.
John Wilsoncroft
Private 16477
10th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Notts Free Press, 1st November 1918
John Wilsoncroft died on Saturday 12th October 1918, aged 30 years, and was buried in ROCQUIGNY-EQUANCOURT ROAD BRITISH CEMETERY, MANANCOURT, Somme, France.
He was born on 8th September 1888 at Union Court, Mansfield, to parents Henry and Annie Wilsoncroft. Henry Wilsoncroft was a Labourer, who married Annie Parkin at St Peter's Church Mansfield in August 1886. At the time of John's death the family lived at 2 Central Street, Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
John's brothers - Thomas Wilsoncroft and Henry Wilsoncroft - are also commemorated on Sutton's War Memorial.
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 Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 1st November 1918 |
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
WILSONCROFT John, born Mansfield, Notts., enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield), Private 16477, died of wounds, France & Flanders, 12th October 1918.
Research by Heather Faulkes
