Private Edward Leam

Army Number: 4551

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

Son of Thomas and Ann Leam. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 28, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.