Private John William Edwards

Army Number: 3035

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Grassmoor, Derbyshire and lived at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Sarah Edwards, of 10, Bowers Yard, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was a Coal Miner at Summit Colliery, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire prior to enlisting on 11th November 1914 at Newark, Nottinghamshire. He went to France on 28th June 1915 and was killed in action, 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1, Row L, Grave 27.

Private Edwards is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial, Skegby, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary Magdalene Church War Memorial, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.