Private Herbert Crossland

Army Number: 70128

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Retford, Nottinghamshire. So of Pearce and Ann Crossland, of 19, Canal Street, Retford. He was a coal merchants labourer prior to enlisting at Retford. He was wounded on 1st August 1917 and died of wounds on 15th September 1917, at the Italian Hospital, Queen’s Square, London.

Buried: East Retford Cemetery, United Kingdom. New portion. A.J. 194.

Private Herbert Crossland is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Retford War Memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
St. Swithun’s Church War Memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.