Kelk, Joseph

 

Rank: Lance Corporal

 

Number: 71327

 

Battalion: 15^th Sherwood Foresters

 

Died: 16^th January 1919

 

Buried: Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery

 

 

Kerry, Lewis Herbert

 

Rank: Able Seaman

 

Number: SS/6320

 

Ship: HMS Redoubt, Royal Navy

 

Died: 10^th February 1918

 

Buried: Shotley (St Mary) Churchyard, Suffolk

 

Additional Information:

Died of Enteric Fever

 

 

Key, John William

 

Rank: Private

 

Number: 37104

 

Battalion: 2^nd Lancashire Fusiliers

 

Died: 12^th October 1916

 

Age: 25

 

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial

 

Additional Information:

Son of Mr and Mrs Charles Key of Warsop: Husband of Alma Jane Key, of 12 Park Street, Mansfield Woodhouse.

Enlisted May 1916. Previous to enlisting he worked at Sherwood Colliery

 

 

King, John

Rank: Rifleman

 

Number: R/10306

 

Battalion: 2^nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps

 

Died: 25^th September 1915

 

Age: 23

 

Commemorated: Loos Memorial

 

Additional Information:

Son of Mr Daniel King of Albert Street, Mansfield Woodhouse

Enlisted 2^nd February 1915

 

 

Knight, Bennet Collier

 

Rank: Private

 

Number: 11907

 

Battalion: 7^th Leicestershire Regiment

 

Died: 14^th July 1916

 

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial

 

Additional Information:

Home address 3 Springhill, Mansfield Woodhouse

Enlisted August 1915

 

 

Lancashire, Simeon

 

Rank: Private

 

Number: 42897

 

Battalion: 1/1^st Cambridgeshire Regiment

 

Died: 27^th September 1918

 

Age: 19

 

Buried: Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery

 

Additional Information:

Son of Joseph and Jane Lancashire of 36 Ninth Avenue, Forest Town.

 

 

Leatherland, John

 

Rank: Gunner

 

Number: 72079

 

Battalion: 814^th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery

 

Died: 26^th July 1916

 

Age: 22

 

Buried: Avesnes Le Comte Communal Cemetery Extension

 

Additional Information:

Son of John and Lydia Leatherland of 50 Thorseby Road, Mansfield Woodhouse.

Enlisted January 1915. Prior to enlisting he worked at Warsop Main Colliery

 

 

Lee, Albert

 

Rank: Private

 

Number: 27777

 

Battalion: 17^th Sherwood Foresters

 

Died: 3^rd September 1916

 

Buried: Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont Hamel

 

Additional Information:

Home address 42 Vallance Street, Mansfield Woodhouse

 

 

Lees, Thomas

 

Rank: Private

 

Number: 42053

 

Battalion: 1^st South Staffordshire Regiment

 

Died: 2^nd February 1918

 

Age: 38

 

Buried: Giavera British Cemetery, Arcade, Italy

 

Additional Information:

Son of William Lees of Repton.

 

 

Leeson, Charles

 

Rank: Gunner

 

Number: RMA/12221

 

Ship: HMS Invincible Royal Marine Artillery

 

Died: 31^st May 1916

 

Commemorated: Portsmouth Naval Memorial

 

Additional Information:,.

Served 8 years in the Royal Navy

Killed during the Battle of Jutland

 

 

Lilliman, Joseph

 

Rank: Private

 

Number: 12833

 

Battalion: 9^th Sherwood Foresters

 

Died: 9^th August 1915

 

Commemorated: Helles Memorial, Gallipoli

 

Additional Information:,

Home address Newcastle Street, Mansfield Woodhouse

He left a family of 6 children

All 3 Lilliman’s are brothers

 

 

Lilliman, William Henry

 

Rank: Private

 

Number: 22248

 

Battalion: 2^nd Sherwood Foresters

 

Died: 5^th October 1915

 

Buried: Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery

 

Additional Information:

The son of Mr and Mrs H Lilliman. Home address 145 Blake Street, Mansfield Woodhouse

Enlisted August 1914, previously worked at Langwith Colliery.. He was discharged not long after enlisting but re enlisted January 1915. He went to France on 19^th July 1915 and took part in the Battle of Loos 25^th September 1915 where the British Army suffered thousands of casualties, never seen on a scale before.

 

Lilliman, Robert

 

Rank: Company Serjeant Major

 

Number: 25502

 

Battalion: 16^th Sherwood Foresters

 

Died: 10^th October 1916

 

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial

 

Additional Information:

Home address 53 Sherwood Street, Mansfield Woodhouse.

Prior to the outbreak of the war he worked at Langwith Colliery.

On the outbreak of war he enlisted into the Grenadier Guards but was discharged and subsequently enlisted into the Sherwood Foresters. He went to France with the Sherwood Foresters in March 1916.

 

 

Lloyd, John

 

Rank: Private

 

Number: 19054

 

Battalion: 9^th Sherwood Foresters

 

Died: 26^th September 1916

 

Age: 34

 

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial

 

Additional Information:

Son of John and Sarah Lloyd of Wood Bank, Darlaston, Staffordshire: Husband of Sarah Stevens (formerly Lloyd) of 124 Coke Street, Mansfield Woodhouse

Enlisted 16^th November 1914. Prior to enlisting, like so many others, he worked at Langwith Colliery.