Private Henry Brewin

Army Number: 9459

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

Born at Normanton, Derbyshire. Son of Samuel and Rebecca Brewin, of 5 North Terrace, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Husband of Ethel Brewin, of 18, Swan Street, Bentley, Doncaster. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting on 5th July 1904 at Chesterfield. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, aged 30, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.