Captain William Huntstone Brierley

Army Number: n/a (formerly Private 357)

Battalion: Adjutant 6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment

Son of William and Mary Brierley, of Beech House, Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant 14th April 1915 and was posted to the 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 17th July 1915.  He joined the 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment as Captain, 30th September 1915. He was killed in action, 30th September 1917, aged 20, in the attack on Vlamertinghe, near Ypres, Belgium. 

Buried : New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 7. Row E. Grave 10.

Captain William Huntstone Brierley is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Tideswell War Memorial, Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire.
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire.

His brother  Ordinary Seaman John James Hubert Brierley, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, also fell in the Great War