Private John Bibby

Army Number: 240375 (formerly 2025

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

Born at Aston, Westmoreland. Husband of Edith Alice Bibby, of Bulwer, Litton, Buxton, Derbyshire. He was a groom/gardener at Blackwell Hall, Milton Dale, Derbyshire prior to enlisting on 26th June 1913 at Millers Dale, Derbyshire. He went to France on 28th February 1915 and was killed in action, on 19th April 1917, aged 30,  whilst serving in the trenches at Lievin, France. 

Buried: Lievin Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 4. Row C. Grave 3.

Private John Bibby is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Tideswell, Derbyshire.