Private Ernest Arthur Archer

Army Number: 71956 (formerly 30556 Lincolnshire Regiment)

Battalion: 16th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of John and Miriam Archer of “The Pastures” Littleover, Derbyshire. He was a farmhand prior to enlisting at Derby on 8th May 1916. He went to France on 22nd May 1917 and transferred to the 16th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 12th June 1917. He was killed in action, 22nd September 1917, during the attack at Bulgar Wood, Belgium.

Commemorated: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A

Private Ernest Arthur Archer is also commemorated on the following local memorial.
All Saints Church War Memorial, Findern, Derbyshire.