Private William Bezer

Army Number: 9185

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

Born at West Bromwich, Staffordshire and lived at Handsworth, Staffordshire. Son of Moses and Elizabeth Bezer, of 7 Kenrick Street, West Bromwich. He was a cement worker prior to enlisting at Oldbury, Staffordshire. He went to France on 24th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

His brother Private Charles Andrew Bezer, 7th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, also fell in the Great War,