Lance Corporal Thomas William Smeeton

Army Number: 11018

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Smeeton, of 48, Wolfa Street, Derby. Went to France on 4th November 1914 with the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 27, in the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Serre Road Cemetery No.2, France. Plot IV, Row C, Grave 9.