Sergeant Ralph Ecob Hayes

Army Number: 79

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

Son of George William and Annie Mary Hayes, of 18, Uttoxeter New Road, Derby.

Killed in action, 26th June 1915, by a German shell whilst reparing dugouts at Sanctuary Wood, Belgium.

Sergeant Ralph Ecob Hayes art1
Nottingham Evening Post 3rd July 1915.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.

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