Private Ernest Allsop

Army Number: 306318

Battalion: 2/6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born 4th November 1888 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Sarah Allsop, of John Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Mansfield and was killed in action, 21st March 1918, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Private Ernest Allsop is commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Sutton War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.

His brothers Private Horace Allsop 13th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers and Private Sampson George Allsop 4th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) also fell in the Great War.