Private Alfred Bills

Army Number: 21780

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Gloucester and lived at Warsop, Nottinghamshire. Son of George and Emma Bill, of 54 Alexandra Street, Warsop. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He went to France 27th August 1915 and was killed in action, 25th September 1915,  whilst in the line near La Chapelle, D’Armentieres.

Buried: X Farm Cemetery, La Chapelle-D’Armentières, France. Row D. Grave 6.

Private Alfred Bills is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church War memorial, Warsop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.