Sergeant John A. Ballantyne

Army Number: 17496

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in London and lived at Beckenham, Kent. Brother of Elizabeth F. Ballantyne. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 25th October 1915. He was killed in action, 23rd April 1917, by German shellfire whilst serving in the line at “Exeter Castle”, near Philosophe, France.

Buried Vermelles British Cemetery, France. Plot 6. Row B. Grave 13.