Private William Bowers

Army Number: 266800 (formerly 5337)

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

Son of William Bowers of Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He enlisted at Nottingham 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 William Bowers is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Fenton Magistrate Court Roll of Honour, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire