Private John Finch

Army Number: 6653

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Husband of Sarah Ann Finch of 16, Thoresby Avenue, Meadow Lane, Nottingham. He was a general labourer prior to enlisting on 4th September 1914 at Nottingham. He went to France on 27th August 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 34, during the attack on the German positions at Ovillers, 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.

Private John Finch is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Nicholas’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.