Lance Sergeant William Showell

Lance Sergeant William Showell

Army Number: 11308

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th September 1914. when the battalion was ordered to retake trenches taken by the Germans at the head of the Troyon Valley, France, during the Battle of the Aisne.

Lance Sergeant William Showell
Derbyshire Courier 17th October 1914.

Commemorated: La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.

La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.