EASTWOOD & KIMBERLEY ADVERTISER
30TH AUGUST 1918
KILLED IN RETREAT
PTE HERBERT CRESSWELL
LOSCOE,

Strong hopes had been held out by Mr and Mrs Benjamin Cresswell, of Granfield Street, Loscoe, 
that their son Pte Herbert Cresswell, of the 2nd/5th Sherwood’s, who was posted as missing on 
March 21st last, would eventually prove to be a prisoner of war. 
Subsequent news, however, has dashed this hope to the ground, and through the Red Cross 
they have this week learned that the brave boy, who enlisted in July 1915 at 17 years of age, was 
recognised by his disc, and has been returned from Berlin as having did on the battlefield.
A letter in April from an N.C.O. in his company informed the parents that headquarters was 
surrounded and all believed to be taken prisoners.
Cresswell, who prior to enlisting worked at Ormonde Colliery, had been in France since March 1916, 
and was last home on leave in June 1917.