Private Albert Charles Ball

Army Number: 241254 (formerly 3867)

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Son of Alfred and Mary Ann Ball, of 187, Bridge Street, Gainsborough. He was an iron foundry moulder apprentice prior to enlisting at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He died of wounds received at Passchendaele Ridge, Belgium 10th November 1917, aged 25.

Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France. Plot 8. Row I. Grave 110.

Private Albert Charles Ball is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
All Saints Church War Memorial, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Gainsborough Library Roll of Honour, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.