Corporal Arthur Harrison Grocock

Army Number : 50420

Battalion : 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment.

Born at Balderton, Newark, Nottinghamshire. Son of Samuel and Sarah Jane Grocock. of 46 Beacon Hill Road, Newark. Husband of Mable Grocock, of 1, Lincoln Street, Newark. He was a house painter prior to enlisting at Newark. 5th June 1916. He went to France January 1917 and died of sickness 12th May 1917. aged 30.

Buried: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 12, Row B, Grave 5A.

Corporal Grocock is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Newark Cemetery Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church Borough of Newark Roll of Honour, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
St. Leonard’s Church War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.