Private Henry Bywater

Army Number : 9952

Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Son of Henry and Emma Bywater of Nottingham. Husband of Mary Adelaide Bywater. Was a professional soldier who enlisted at Nottingham. He was serving at Kolar Goldfield, South India when war broke out. He was killed when a German shell hit the barn he was billeted in on 17th November 1914.

Buried : Rue-Du-Bacquerot No.1 Military Cemetery, Laventie, France. Plot I. Row B, Grave 8.

Private Henry Bywater is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
St. Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.