Private John Wilsoncroft

Army Number : 16477

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

Born at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Henry and Annie Wilsoncroft, husband of Elsie Wilsoncroft. He was a labourer, for Messrs Meggitt & Sons prior to enlisting in August 1914. He died 12th October 1918.

Buried/Commemorated : Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, France.

Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, France.

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

His brothers Private Henry Wilsoncroft, 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment and Private Thomas Wilsoncroft, of 2/5th West Yorkshire (Prince of Wales’s Own) Regiment also fell in the Great War.