Lance Corporal Thomas Beecroft
Army Number: 20226
Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Nottingham and lived at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Son of Thomas and Lucy Beecroft, of 128, North Gate, New Basford, Notts; Husband of Matilda Rebecca Blackhurst (formerly Beecroft), of 5, Byron Street, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France 13th September 1915 and was killed in action, 23rd March 1918, aged 29, in the action near the Maricourt Road, France.
Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.
Lance Corporal Thomas Beecroft is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Hucknall Co-Operative Society War Memorial, St. Mary Magdelen Churchyard, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Hucknall Co-Operative Society War Memorial, Kimberley Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham




His Brother Bombadier Horace Beecroft, 39th Brigade Royal Field Artillery also fell in the Great War.