Lance Sergeant John William Hayes

Army Number : 9983

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal Born at Nottingham. Son of William and Sarah Hayes, of 8, The Gripps Cottages, Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire. Enlisted at Nottingham and went to France 4th November 1914 with the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was wounded in May 1915 and was killed in action, 16th September 1916, age 30, during the attack near Guillemont, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Lance Sergeant John William Hayes — Photograph of Lance Sergeant Hayes kindly supplied by Mark Guy-Clark

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

Thiepval Memorial, France.

Lance Sergeant Hayes is also commemorated on the following war memorials :-
All Saints Church War Memorial, Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire.