Private Francis Bingham Charles Dunnicliffe

Army Number: 201234 (formerly 3892)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Long Eaton, Derbyshire. Son of Charles and Catherine Dunnicliffe of 4 Holme Street, Long Eaton. Husband of Mary Ann Dunnicliffe, of 1, Pleasant Row, Long Eaton. He was a plasterer before enlisting at Derby. He went to France on 10th November 1915 and was 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.

Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 1, Row D, Grave 8.

Private Dunnicliffe is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Long Eaton Town Hall War Memorial, Long Eaton, Derbyshire.