Lance Corporal Francis Dann

Army Number: 241269

Battalion: 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Son of Frederick Josiah and Lucy Dann, of 6 Bridge Street, Brampton, Chesterfield. Husband of Minnie Dann, of 43, Walton Drive, Boythorpe, Chesterfield. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting on 11th September 1914 at Chesterfield. He died of wounds, 28th April 1917, aged 24.

Buried: La Chapelette British and Indian Cemetery, Peronne, France. Plot 2. Row A. Grave 7.

Lance Corporal Francis Dann is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Thomas the Apostles Church War Memorial, Brampton, Chesterfield.