Private George Walter Bradshaw

Army Number : 22550

Battalion : 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Whittington, Derbyshire and lived at Brimington, Derbyshire. Son of William and Almina Bradshaw, of 3 Station Road, Brimington, Derbyshire. Husband of Mary Ann Bradshaw, of 21, Pondwell, Brimington. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He served in Gallipoli during 1915 with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was later transferred to the  11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment in France. He was killed in action, 19th October 1917, whilst serving in the line near Zillebeke, Belgium.

Buried/Commemorated : Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 47. Row C. Grave 11.

Private George Walter Bradshaw is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Brimington War Memorial Gates, Broom Gardens, Brimington, Derbyshire.

His brothers Private Thomas Bradshaw, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and Private John Bradshaw, 11th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, also fell in the Great War.