Private Herbert Brocklehurst

Army Number : 12824

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Newbold, Derbyshire. Son of Herbert and Mary Brocklehurst, of 17, Fletcher Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. He was a Coal Miner prior to enlisting at Mansfield. He served in Gallipoli during 1915 with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was later transferred to the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was killed in action, 9th July 1917, aged 27, whilst serving in the trenches on the Black Line near Arras.

Buried : Sunken Road Cemetery, Fampoux, France. Plot 1. Row B. Grave 11.

Private Herbert Brocklehurst is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Yeoman Memorial Park, War Memorial, Mansfield-Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

 

His father Private Herbert Brocklehurst, 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.