Private William Webster

Army Number: 4510

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

Son of Mrs Fanny Webster, of 49, Quarn Street, Derby. Went to France on 10th November 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 23, 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.