Private Robert Bonsall

Army Number: 18580

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory MedalBorn ar Ripley, Derbyshire and lived at Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Son of George and Sarah E. Bonsall, of 31, Orchard Street, Ilkeston. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Ilkeston. He went to France 17th August 1915 and died of wounds, 14th October 1916, aged 31,  at Bury-St. Edmonds, Suffolk. 

Buried : Ilkeston (Park) Cemetery, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. Screen Wall. 1920.

Private Robert Bonsall is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Ilkeston War Memorial Ilkeston, Derbyshire. 

Ilkeston War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Ilkeston War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.