Private George William Drinkwater

Army Number: 266155 formerly 3742

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Went to France on 28th June 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.