21467 Lance-Corporal John Walley Rangecroft of the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, was killed in action on the 9th May 1916. He had previously served with the West Yorkshire Regiment - number 10091.
John was born in Hull and probably enlisted there as well. His West Yorkshire Regiment number is a pre-war one and dates to early 1914. 21467 with the Northumberland Fusiliers dates to May 1915, and John's medal index card states that he arrived in France with the Nothumberland Fusiliers on the 13th July 1915.
John Rangecroft is buried in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery in Belgium.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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