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Richard Roocroft

Rank:Lieutenant
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No:44th Lancaster (Stretford) Bn
Name of Rgt or Ship:Home Guard
Died:03/05/1941Age:47
How Died:Killed in Air Raid
Country of burial:U.K.Grave Photo:Yes
Cemetery or Memorial:Stretford Cemetery
Town Memorial:Stretford Book
Extra Information:
Born during the June quarter 1894 in the Lancaster R.D. - ref: 8e/713, the
son of Richard & Mary Ellen Roocroft (nee Rose).

1901 Census - 23 Primrose Street, Lancaster.    Son - aged: 7 - born:
Lancaster.   Head of household - Richard Roocroft - Married - aged: 38 -
occ: Police Inspector - born: Lancaster.  Also - Mary E. Roocroft - Wife -
aged: 37 - born: Lancaster.   Plus 6 siblings and his paternal
grandfather.

1911 Census - 27 Owen Road, Lancaster.   Son - aged: 17 - occ: Assistant
Clerk - born: Lancaster.   Head of household - Richard Roocroft - Married -
aged: 48 - occ: Inspector of Police - born: Lancaster.  Also - Mary Ellen
Roocroft - Wife - aged: 47 - born: Lancaster.   Plus 4 siblings.

Married Ellen Smithies during the September quarter 1924 in the Blackburn
R.D. - ref: 8e/1249.   They resided at, 9 Gorse Crescent, Stretford.

1939 National Registration - 9 Gorse Crescent, Stretford.   Richard
Roocroft - Married - born: 7th March 1894 - occ: General Warehouse Work. 
Elllen Roocroft - Married - born: 22nd May 1893 - occ: Unpaid Domestic
Duties.   Thomas Roocroft - Single - born: 12th July 1925 - occ: Apprentice
Electrical Engineer.

Serving as a Lieutenant in the 44th Lancaster (Stretford) Bn Home Guard.

CWGC - Employed as a Warehouse Clerk.  Died at Withington Hospital.

Buried 07/05/1941 - Buirial No. 18,135.  CWGC Headstone.

M.I. - "Resting where no shadows fall".

His widow - Ellen Roocroft, married John W. Brown on the 13th June 1945.
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