12 December 2009

14427877 Pte Robert James Ashcroft, 1st Bn, Lincolnshire Regt

14427877 Private Robert James Ashcroft of the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, died on the 12th December 1944. He was 18 years old, the son of Samuel Thomas Ashcroft and Elizebeth Ashcroft of Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire.

Robert Ashcroft is buried in Arnhem's Osterbeek War Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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