Second Lieutenant William Bavin

Army Number: n/a (formerly Private TR/5/110585

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Richard and Mary Bavin, of 2, Milner Road, Sherwood, Nottingham. He was educated at Nottingham High School and Nottingham University O.T.C. He gained a commission as Second Lieutenant, on 21st March 1918. He joined the 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment at Verquin, France 16th July 1918. He was killed in action, on 29th September 1918, near Ascension Spur, Vendelles, France.

Commemorated: Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France. Panel 7.

Vis-en-Artios Memorial, France.

Second Lieutenant William Bavin is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.
Nottingham Boys’ High School Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Rowing Club War Memorial, Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
Nottingham Rowing Clubs War Memorial, (Amalgamated) Trent Bridge Nottingham.
Nottingham University O.T.C. War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham. 

His brother Private Albert Richard Bavin, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, also fell in the Great War.