Private Arthur Haywood

Private Arthur Haywood
Photograph of Private Arthur Haywood kindly supplied by Matt Highton.

Army Number: 10166

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Hemington, Leicestershire. Son of Sarah E. Haywood, of Peggs Farm, Hemington. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting, on 6th October 1906 at Derby. He won a championship and lightweight medal in India, in 1911, for boxing. He went to France on 4th November 1914 and died of wounds, on 11th March 1915 received during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, France.

Buried: Estaires Communal Cemetery and Extension, France. Plot 2. Row S. Grave 2.

Estaires Communal Cemetery and Extension, France.

Private Arthur Haywood is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Hemington War Memorial, Hemington, Leicestershire.
St. Nicholas Church War Memorial, Lockington, Leicestershire.