Private Bertie Binch

Army Number : 30816

Battalion : 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born at Calverton, Nottinghamshire. Son of Henry and Mary Ann Binch, of 5 Sherwood Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Louisa Binch. He was a coal miner at Blackwell Colliery, Nottinghamshire prior to enlisting at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. 19th September 1915. He died of wounds 27th March 1918.

Buried: Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 3. Row P, Grave 2.

Private Bertie Binch is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Sutton War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.