Army Number: 266374 formerly 4600

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Mrs Fanny Widdowson, of 30, Sherbrooke Road, Carrington, Nottinghamshire.

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.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.