Private Jesse Adcock
Army Number: 26481
Battalion: 16th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Lived at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire. Son of Jesse and Charlotte Adcock, of 31, Upper Regent Street, Beeston, Nottinghamshire. He was a town labourer prior to enlisting at Nottingham on 26th May 1915. He went to France on 6th March 1916 and was killed in action whilst serving in the line at St. Julien, Belgium
Buried Track X Cemetery, Belgium. Row D, Grave 17.
Private Jesse Adcock is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire.
Christ Church War Memorial, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire.
Memorial Hall War Memorial, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire.
Chilwell Memorial Institute War Memorial, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
His brother Private James Adcock 10th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.