Private James J. Smith

Army Number: 1750

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

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Mrs Emily J. Mawbey, of 32, Lynton Street, Derby. Went to France on 1st March 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 19, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 1, Row G, Grave 15.

Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France.
Private James J. Smith