Private Ernest Edward Beacroft

Army Number : 124118 (formerly 30290)

Battalion : 53rd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Herbert Beacroft, of 6, Pasture Road, Barton-On-Humber, Lincolnshire He lied at Barton on Humber. Enlisted 20th September 1918 at Lincoln, He went to France 10th March 1919 and was accidentally drowned, 11th August 1919, age 19, whilst bathing in the River Rhine, Germany.

Buried/Commemorated : Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany. Plot 4. Row C. Grave 6.