Private Thomas Allsop

Army Number: 18452

Battalion: 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Tamworth, Staffordshire. Son of John and Violetta Allsop, of 16, Harcourt Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Mansfield and served at Gallipoli during 1915. He went to France in July 1916 and was killed in action, 26th September 1916, in the attack near Thiepval, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

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

Private Thomas Allsop is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Lawrence’s Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottingham.

His brother Stoker John Allsop, of H.M.S Queen Mary, Royal Navy was killed during the Battle of Jutland on 31st May 1916.