Lance Corporal Thomas Beecroft

Army Number: 20226

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

British 15 Star, British War and Victory MedalBorn 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. 

Lance Corporal Thomas Beecroft

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Arras Memorial, France.

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

Hucknall Co-operative Society War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Hucknall Co-operative Society War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

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