Second Lieutenant Thomas George Inglesant

Army Number : n/a (formerly Sergeant 4191 Leicestershire Regiment)

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

Son of John Herbert and Annie Maria Inglesant, of 344, Humberstone Road, Leicester. He was educated at Wyggeston Boys’ Grammar School 1900 – 1907. He was commissioned 3/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 20th October 1915, joining C Company 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment at Bretancourt 18th July 1916. He was killed in action, 20th August 1916, age 25, whilst supervising digging fatigues near Bellacourt, France.

Buried Bellacourt Military Cemetery, Riviere, France. Plot I. Row B, Grave 3.

Second Lieutenant Thomas George Inglesant is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Barnabus Church War Memorial, Leicester.
Wyggeston Boys’ Grammar School War Memorial, Leicester.

His brother Sergeant John Herbert Inglesant, 1/4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.