Private John Edward Betts

Army Number: 24972

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of William and Helen Betts, of 20 Lonsdale Road, Radford, Nottingham. Husband of Emma Betts, of 68, Broad Oak Street, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and died of wounds 7th October 1917.

Buried : Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 7. Row B. Grave 45.

Private John Edward Betts is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Radford, Nottingham. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.