Private Robert William Betteley
Army Number: 19026
Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born and lived at Longton, Staffordshire. Son of Allan and Annie Betteley, of 39 Hope Street, East Vale, Longton, Staffordshire. Husband of Florrie Betteley, of 15 Garner Street, Longton. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Longton. He went to France 11th August 1915 and was killed in action, 14th February 1916, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.
Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.
Private Robert William Betteley is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Longton War Memorial , Longton, Staffordshire.