Lance Sergeant George William Bancroft

Lance Sergeant George William Bancroft

Army Number: 4769

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at 8, Cambridge Yard, Cambridge Street, Radford, Nottingham. Husband of Fanny Elizabeth Lee (formerly Bancroft), of 10, Belle Vue Road, St. Anns Well Road, Nottingham. He was a goods porter prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 11th November 1914 and was killed in action, 16th September 1916, aged 40, in the attack on the German positions at Guillemont, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

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

Thiepval Memorial, France.