Private John Henry Dennis

Army Number: 19049

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born at Wilsford, Lincolnshire and lived at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Henry and Eliza Helen, of Wilsford. He worked as a gas stoker before enlisting at Sutton-in-Ashfield in October 1914. He went to France in January 1916 and was killed in action in the attack on the German positions near the Ypres/Comines Canal, 3rd March 1916, age 40.

Buried: Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium. Enclosure No.4 8. G. 33.

Private John Henry Dennis is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Sutton-in-Ashfield War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Nottinghamshire.