Private 3768 John Henry CROMPTON
1st /6th Battalion, Sherwood Forest (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
Killed in Action, Thursday 20th July 1916, France, Age 35
Home address:
13 Bagshaw Street, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1881, Newton Moor, Lancashire
Parents:
Fanny Crompton and Robert Crompton
13 Bagshaw Street, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Boiler Makers, Riveter
Enlisted:
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Remembered:
Bellacourt Military Cemetery, Riviere, Pas de Calais, France, plot I, row G, grave 7.
Link to Hyde:
Not Known
From the Manchester Evening News, 18th Friday August 1916, page 2, column 8:
Killed whilst marching to the trenches.