Lance Corporal John Edwin Braseby
Army Number: 63020
Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born and lived at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Son of John and Mary Ann Abbot Braseby, of 67, Victoria Street, Hucknall. Husband of Ettie Braseby. He was an assistant in the family fish business prior to enlisting 214th June 1916 at Hucknall, He was killed in action, 20th November 1917, during the attack near Beaucamp, near Ribecourt, France.
Buried : Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, France. Plot 2. Row H. Grave 9.
Lance Corporal John Edwin Braseby is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Mary Magdelene Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.


