Private Joseph Crockett

Army Number: 20317

Battalion: 1st Garrison Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Glossop, Derbyshire. Husband of Emily Crockett, of 22, Curtis Street, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner. He enlisted on 30th November 1914 and went to Egypt 7th November 1915. He accidentally drowned whilst bathing in a canal at Port Said, Egypt 4th August 1916, aged 38.

Buried: Port Said War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

Private Crockett is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.