Lance Corporal Nathan Earl

Army Number : 592

Battalion : 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby’s) Regiment.

Born and lived at Sawley, Derbyshire. Son of William Absalom and Mary <Hannah Earl, of 2 Hawthorn Avenue, New Sawley, Derbyshire. He was a lace twist hand before enlisting g 18th June 1908 at Long Eaton, Derbyshire. He went to <France 1st March 1915 and was appointed Lance Corporal 23rd November 1915. He was killed in action when the Germans exploded a mine and then attacked the trenches at Berlancourt.

Died : 25th March 1916.

Commemorated : Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

He is also commorated on the sawley >War Memoroial.