Sergeant Daniels Leadbetter

Army Number: 265037 formerly 1109

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: Military Medal

Went to France on 25th February 1915. Was awarded the Military Medal London Gazette19th November 1917. For gallantry when the Battalion was in the Cambrin Left Sub Sector on the 2/3rd September 1917, and Sgt Leadbeater was in charge of a working party. A 5.9 German Shell dropped into a Stokes Mortar Dump and 2 men of the Stokes Mortar Battery were buried. The Stokes ammunition was exploding but he continued to dig them out until they were released entirely regardless of personal risk: Killed in action 21st March 1918, during an enemy barrage on the front line in the Noreuil Sector, having been posted to the 1/7th (Robin Hood) Battalion

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.