Notts Free Press, 11th January 1918
WOOLSONCROFT T.
Thomas Wilsoncroft
Private
47104
2nd/5th Bn., West Yorkshire Regt. (Prince of Wales's Own)
Notts Free Press, 11th January 1918
Thomas Wilsoncroft died on Wednesday 21st November 1917, Age 21, and is buried in ROCQUIGNY-EQUANCOURT ROAD BRITISH CEMETERY, MANANCOURT, Somme, France.
He was baptised at St Peter's Church, Mansfield, on 13th August 1896, to parents Henry and Annie Wilsoncroft of 1 Union Court. Henry Wilsoncroft was a Labourer, who married Annie Parkin at St Peter's Church Mansfield in August 1886. At the time of Thomas's death the family lived at 2 Central Street, Mansfield Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Thomas's brothers - John 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 – Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)’
THOMAS WILSONCROFT, enlisted Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield), 2/5th Bn., Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regt), Private 47104, died of wounds, France & Flanders, 21st November 1917.
Research by Heather Faulkes
