Private John Beeston Hare

Army Number: 269293 (formerly 3119 Nottinghamshire Yeomanry and 20075)

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

Born at New Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire and lived at Woodlesford, Leeds, Yorkshire. Son of John and Elizabeth Hare, of Woodlesford, Leeds, Yorkshire. Husband of Elsie M. Hare, of The White Hart, Woodlesford, Leeds. He was a brewery clerk prior to enlisting at Retford, Nottinghamshire. Killed in action, 5th March 1917, aged 28, when the Germans bombed the trenches near the Essarts – Hannescamps Road, France.

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 2. Row D. Grave 15.

Private John Beeston Hare is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Oulton and Woodlesford War Memorial, Oulton, Wakefield, Yorkshire.