Private John James Hardwick

Army Number: 4360

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

Born and lived at Derby. Son of George and Ellen Hardwick, of 61, Goodale Street, Derby. Husband of Emily Gertrude Hardwick, of 81, Rutland Street, Derby. He was an Iron Moulder prior to enlisting on 21st May 1915 at Derby. He went to France on 13th March 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 34, 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 2, Row H, Grave 1.

One of three brothers, all of whom fell in the Great War.