Private Arthur Billson

Army Number: 266721 (formerly 5209)

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Albert and Emma Billson, of 23, Little John Street, Nottingham. He was a printer prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 2, Row E, Grave 28.

Private Arthur Billson is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.