Private William Allcock

Army Number: 14604

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

Born and lived at Arnold, Nottinghamshire. Son of Sam and Ellen Allcock. Killed in action, 14th February 1916, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the southeast of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated  Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41

Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.

Private William Allcock is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
Arnot Hill Park War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.