Private Thomas William Blood

Army Number: 15167

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

Born at Rotherham. Son of Thomas William and Prudence Blood. He enlisted at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, went to France 14th July 1915 and was killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 22, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.