Private Thomas Bradshaw

Army Number: 12186

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

Born at Whittington, Derbyshire and lived at Brimington, Derbyshire. Son of William and Almina Bradshaw, of 3 Station Road, Brimington, Derbyshire. He enlisted at Chesterfield and he went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, aged 19, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Private Thomas Bradshaw is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Brimington War Memorial Gates, Broom Gardens, Brimington, Derbyshire.

His brothers Private George Walter Bradshaw 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and Private John Bradshaw, 11th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, also fell in the Great War.