Private John Cousins

Army Number: 1593

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Nottingham and lived at Crown Street, Blue Bell Hill, Nottingham. Son of Frank and Elizabeth Cousins of Paxton Street, Nottingham. Husband of Hilda Birch (formerly Cousins), of 8, Newcastle Road, Meadows, Nottingham. He was an iron turner prior to enlisting 6th May 1912 at Nottingham. He went to France 28th February 1915 and was killed in action, 31st July 1915, aged 21, during the German attack near Sanctuary Wood, Belgium.

Buried/Commemorated: Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row D. Grave 42.

Private John Cousins is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Bartholomew’s Church Roll of Honour (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham.
Queen’s Walk School, Old Boys’ War Memorial, Queen’s Walk, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.