Private John Henry Curzon

Army Number: 305652 formerly 2582

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

Born and lived at Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Son of Walter and Mary Curzon, of Waterloo Yard, King Street, Southwell. Husband of Daisy Calcraft (formerly Curzon), of 61, Westgate, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. He was a twist hand at E. Carey & Sons, Southwell, prior to enlisting at Newark, Nottinghamshire. He went to France on 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, 23rd March 1918, aged 32, during the German attack on the British positions at Hermies, France.

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Private John Henry Curzon is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Wesleyan Church War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Holy Trinity Church War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Carey & Sons War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.