Private John Hellaby

Army Number: 70760

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

Born and lived at Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Son of John and Anne Hallaby, of Church Lane Farm, Osmaston-by-Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Husband of Annie Hellaby, of Upper Mayfield, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He was a farm waggoner prior to enlisting, on 15th October 1914 at Ashbourne into the 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and served in Dublin during the Irish Rebellion in 1916. He was posted to the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was killed in action, on 7th July 1917, aged 35, by German shellfire whilst serving in the trenches near the Menin Road, Near Ypres, Belgium.

Buried: Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 1. Row F. Grave 3.

Private John Hellaby is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Martin’s Church War Memorial, Osmaston-by-Ashbourne, Derbyshire.