Private George Oswald Darwin

Army Number: 305636 formerly 2561

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

Son of George and Mary Darwin, of Mill House, Clayworth, Retford, Nottinghamshire. He was a dairy farm worker prior to enlisting at Retford. He went to France on 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, 3rd September 1917, aged 22, during the German shelling of the British line near Cambrin, France.

Buried: Cambrin Military Cemetery, France. Row L. Grave 14.

Private George Oswald Darwin is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Clayworth, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.