Cemetery: Ploegsteert Memorial
Country: Belgium
Area: Comines-Warnetonhainaut
Rank: Major
Force: Army
Official Number:
Unit: 25th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry).
Country of Service: British
Details: Mentioned in Despatches. 11th April 1918. Age 39. Son of William and Edith Blanche Ashcroft of 13 The Waldrons Croydon; husband of Violet Maude Ashcroft of The Fairway 3 Anthony's Rd. Bournemouth. Gazetted to the Royal Irish Rifles in June 1915 and proceeded to France in October 1915. (Father of the actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft). Panel 11.
Photograph by Jean Michel Van Eslende