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Name William Alfred CROFT   
Rank/Number Lance Corporal   G/11452
Regiment Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)   10th Battalion
Enlisted Sheerness, Kent 
Age/Date of death 21      31 Jul 1917 
How died/Theatre of war Killed in action   France & Flanders
Last known address Minster, Shepping 
Cemetery Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium 
Grave or Memorial Reference Panel 45 & 47 
Location of memorial Prestwood Holy Trinity
Date/Place of birth 26 Aug 1896      Chetnole, Dorset
Date/Place of baptism 27 Sep 1896 Chetnole, Dorset 
Pre-war occupation of Casualty bakers boy 
Parents William & Martha Ann Croft
Parent's occupation coachman
Parents' Address (last known) 1911: Kemp Cottage, Grove Hill, Hemel Hempstead 
Wife  
Wife's Address (last known)  
Notes brother of Walter Henry Croft who also died but his name is not on the War Memorial 

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