Private Arthur Bancroft

Army Number: 39698

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Caistor, Lincolnshire. and lived at 6, Queens Street, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. Son of Nicholson and Mary Ann Bancroft, of Caistor. He was a grocer’s assistant prior to enlisting at Market Rasen. He was killed in action, 16th September 1916, at Verquetin, France.

Buried Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France. Plot 1. Row G. Grave 10.

Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France.

Private Arthur Bancroft is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Caistor, Lincolnshire.
Caistor War Memorial, Caistor, Lincolnshire.