Private John Hiram Allsop

Army Number: 26678 (formerly 5317)

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was the son of John T. Allsop. He lived at Leicester, enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action, 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A

Thiepval Memorial, France.