Private John Henry Maskrey

Army Number: 266662 (formerly 5083)

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

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of John Henry and Charlotte Maskrey, of 145, Pym Street, Nottingham. Husband of Florence Maskrey, of 8, Hawkridge Street, Alfred Street South, Nottingham. He was a clerk in a lace factory prior to enlisting on 5th September 1914 at Nottingham and was posted 9th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 9th September 1914. He was discharged medically unfit on 18th September 1914 due to endocarditis, mitral regurgitation, palpitations and breathlessness. He re-enlisted in 1915 into the 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He went to France in early 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 22, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.