Nicholas De La Cruz

Private Nicholas De La Cruz (or Delacruz) was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1888, in Liverpool, the son of Philip (Felipe), a boarding house keeper of the Philippines, and Sarah Ann De La Cruz (née Clarkson), of Walton, Yorkshire. At the time of the 1911 Census, the younger De La Cruz was working as a poster display compositor while living with his wife, Janet Marshall, at 16 York Street.
De La Cruz died on 30 July 1916, in an attack on Guillemont during the Somme Offensive, while serving with the 20th (Service) Battalion (4th City), The King's (Liverpool Regiment). His battalion formed part of a brigade collectively known as the "Liverpool Pals", who, in the abortive assault, sustained casualties amounting to 42 officers and 1,063 other ranks.Wyrall, Everard (1935/2002), The History of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) 1914–19, Naval and Military Press, p. 298-9.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*De La Cruz, Nicholas, cwgc.org. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
Category:1888 births
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Filipino descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Thiepval Memorial
Category:Privates