Private William Cadman

Army Number : 25142

Battalion : 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent. Son of William and Mary Cadman, of 187, Bryan Street, Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire. He was killed in action, 25th August 1917, during the German attack on the Knoll, near L’Empire, France.

Buried : Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, France. Plot 2. Row G. Grave 20.

His brother Private John Cadman, 2/5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s) also fell in the Great War.