Corporal Edward Anderson

Army Number: 2045

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

Born in Nottingham. Son of William and Emily Anderson of 47, Virginia Street, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham, went to France on 25th February 1915 and was killed in action, 1st July 1916, 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

Corporal Edward Anderson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Daykeyne Street War Memorial, King Edward Park, Sneinton, Nottingham.