12786 Private Charles Bancroft of the 10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment:

 

He was killed in action on the 12 July 1916, aged 32 years (actually 30 years) and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Somme, France.

 

Charles Bancroft was born at Stockport, Cheshire, in 1886 to Ellis Bancroft and Ann Jay who were married at St Thomas’s Church, Heaton Norris, Stockport, in 1877. In 1911 he was resident with his parents and brother, George (28), on Carrington Road, Stockport, employed as a cotton yarn gasser at a cotton mill. He married Florence Maud Henderson Buckley at St Mary’s in the Market Place, Stockport, on the 22 July 1911 and they were resident on Churchgate, Stockport.

Peter Whitehead