Private William James Thurman

Army Number : 15184

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of William James and Mary Thurman, of 49, Johnson Street, Sheepbridge, Chesterfield.

Killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 21, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.