Private Joseph Eaton

Army Number: 1742

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Ashover, >Derbyshire and lived at 18 Stanton roads, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Son of Joseph Eaton, of Lower Birchwood, Alfreton, Derbyshire. He was a iron pipe molder4 at Stanton Iroin works, Ilkeston before enlisting 11th November 1912 at Ilkeston. He Went to France on 1st March 1915. And suffered gunshot wounds to his head 1st June 1915 he was treated at 1 North Midland Ambulance and returned to duty 4th June 1915. He was admitted to 2 London casualty clearing station at Merville, , 14th November 1915 suffering from shell shock. He was admitted to 12 Stationary Hospital, Rouen17th November 1915 and transferred to 6 general Hospital Rouen, 1dt December 1915. H rejoined his battalion 17th November 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 22, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

He is also commemorated on Ilkeston War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.