Private William Black

Army Number : 109196 (formerly 3485 Shropshire Yeomanry and King’s Shropshire Light Infantry)

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

Born at Widnes, Lancashire. Son of Thomas and Ellen Black, of 80, Faraday Road, Winnington, Cheshire. He was a steel erector prior to enlisting 2nd March 1917 at Northwich, Cheshire. He was transferred to the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, 29th March 1918 and went to France, 30th March 1918. He was transferred to the 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 9th April 1918 and was killed in action 14th July 1918 whilst serving in the trenches at Kemmel, Belgium. 

Commemorated : Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private William Black is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Northwich War Memorial, Northwich, Cheshire.