Private John Ashdown

Army Number : 70211

Battalion : 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Blackheath, Kent. Son of John Henry and Sarah Sophia Ashdown. He enlisted at Tottenham, Middlesex and was killed in action, 20th October 1916, aged 36, during the German attack near Martinsart Wood, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot III. Row B, Grave 1.