HERBERT ALDCROFT 

Herbert ALDCROFT
Rank: Private
Service Number:27612.
Regiment: 1st Bn Cheshire Regiment
Died of wounds Wednesday 2nd August 1916
Age Unknown
FromMobberley.
County Memorial Mobberley
Commemorated\Buried St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen
Grave\Panel Ref: B.29.20.
CountryFrance

Herbert's Story.

Herbert Aldcroft was born in Mobberley, Cheshire in 1886, one of six children born to William (a farmer) and Ann Aldcroft of Moss farm, Moss lane Mobberley. Daniel was a farm labourer.

He enlisted in the army and became Private no 27612 of the 1st Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment. 

Herbert's service records no longer exist so I have found it impossible to locate where and when he received his wounds, but it is more than likely they were received during the Battle of the Somme.