Private Jim Ball

Army Number: 70551

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

Son of J. and Annie Ball, of Eyre Street, Clay Cross, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Husband of Matilda Healy (formerly Ball), of 5, Jarratt Square, Doncaster. He enlisted at Chesterfield and was killed in action, on 17th October 1917, aged 30, whilst in the line near Zillebeke, Belgium.

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

Private Jim Ball is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St, Bartholomew’s Church War Memorial, Clay Cross, Derbyshire.