Private William Bannister

Army Number: 12351

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

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory MedalBorn at Horninglow. Staffordshire and lived in Perth, Western Australia. He enlisted at Derby and went to France on 10th October 1914 and was killed, 16th September 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Guillemont, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Thiepval Memorial, France.