Private William Alfred Hemstock

Army Number : 4823

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

He was born at Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. Son of Fred and Phobe Florence Hemstock, 4 Bagnall Road, Old Basford, Nottingham. He was a Farm Hand prior to enlisting on 8th August 1914. He went to France 4th November 1914 and was killed in action 25th September 1915, by heavy German shelling of the trenches near Boutillerie Road, France.

(The Commonwealth War Grave Commission show his date of death as 9th August 1915, UK Army Registers of Soldiers effects, 1901 – 1929 show date of death as 25th September 1915)

Buried: Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France. Plot 1. Row H. Grave 27.