Sergeant William Billington

Army Number: 17252

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory MedalBorn and lived at Nottingham. Husband of Lois Billington, of 2, Melton Terrace, Nottingham. He was a machine clerk prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France 14th July 1915 and was killed in action, 19th November 1917, during the German shelling of the trenches near Langemarck, Belgium. 

Buried: Solferino Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row B. Grave 19.

Solferino Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

Sergeant William Billington is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.