Private Harold Leslie Bonser

Army Number: 1674

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

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of John and Elizabeth Bonser, of 12 Bathley Street, The Meadows, Nottingham. He was an apprentice tailor prior to enlisting on 22nd November 1914 at Nottingham. He went to France on 28th February 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Harold Leslie Bonser is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St, Saviours Church War Memorial, St Saviours Church The Meadows, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.