Private Charles Ball

Army Number: 18120

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

Born and lived at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Elijah and Mary Ball, of 28, George Street, Mansfield. Husband of Mary Ball, 13, Bancroft Lane, Mansfield. He was a coal miner at Bentinck Colliery, Kirkby, Nottinghamshire, prior to enlisting at Mansfield. He went to France on 27th August 1915 and died of wounds, on 20th June 1916, aged 38.

Buried Millencourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Row C. Grave 1.

Private Charles Ball is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Yeoman Memorial Park, War Memorial, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.