Private William Batty Duckett

Army Number: 73291 formerly 3933 Machine Gun Corps

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of William and Elizabeth Batty, of 41 vernon street, Worksop, Notts. He was a coal miner at Creswell Colliery prior to enloistin on 12th November 1914 at Worksop. He was transferred to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. 19th July 1916 and went to France 8th August 1916H was killed actin, 2nd August 1917. whe a high velocity shell entered Venhuille Farm, near St Julian. Hi s brother Private Horace Batty also fell in the great war.

Died:

Buried: New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Plot V. Row H, Grave 20.

He is also commemorated Worksop War Memorial, St Mary and St Cuthbert priory church war memorial, Worksop.