Private Frederick Marsden
Army Number: 12864
Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born and lived at Carlton-in-Lindrick, Nottinghamshire. Son of Fred and Jane Marsden, of Blue Bell Yard, Carlton-in-Lindrick. He was a coal miner at Shireoaks colliery prior to enlisting at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He went to Gallipoli with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 1st July 1915. He was wounded in Gallipoli and went to France on recovery and was posted to the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was killed in action, on 27th July 1916, by German shellfire, whilst serving in the line near St. Jean, Belgium.
Buried: White House Cemetery, St. Jean-Les-Ypres, Belgium. Plot 1. Row H. Grave 12.
Private Frederick Marsden is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Carlton-in-Lindrick War Memorial, Carlton-in-Lindrick, Nottinghamshire.
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. John’s Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary and St. Cuthbert’s Priory War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
