Sergeant John William Cosgrove

Army Number: 265076 (formerly Private 1456)

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of John Patrick and Caroline Hannah Cosgrove, of 4, Eugene Street, Meadows, Nottingham. He was a factory worker at Boots the Chemist, Nottingham prior to enlisting at Nottingham. Went to France on 25th February 115 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 22, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Sergeant John William Cosgrove is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Boots Offices and Works War Memorial, Beeston, Nottingham.
Loggerheads Public House War Memorial, St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.