Lance Corporal John Severn

Army Number: 201325 (formerly 4056)

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

Husband of Rosa Severn, of I, Bradley Street, Sandiacre, Derbyshire. Went to France on 10th November 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 31, in 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.