Lance Sergeant Frederick Charles Crofts

Army Number: 14564

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

Born and lived in Nottingham. Husband of Susannah Crofts, of 13A, Cremorne Street, Meadows, Nottingham. He was an iron founder’s line keeper prior to enlisting at Nottingham and went to France on 14th July 1915. He was killed in action when serving on the Blackline, near Arras, France, 3rd July 1917, aged 42.

Buried: Bailleul Road East Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blangy, France. V. D. 6. Buried Near This Spot.

Lance Sergeant Crofts is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. George’s Church War Memorial, The Meadows, Nottingham.
Loggerheads War Memorial, St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.