Private John Henry Keightley

Army Number: 9386

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Heage, near Belper, Derbyshire. Son of William Keightly. Husband of Violet Keightley, of Barns Yard, Forest Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He was a collier before enlisting at Chesterfield, Derbyshire on 27th May 1904. He went to France on 19th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Private John Henry Keightley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Sutton-in-Ashfield War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Nottinghamshire.