Private Will Dexter Brothwell

Army Number: 267040

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of William and Alice Mary Brothwell, of Nottingham. He was a warehouse assistant prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was attached to 178 Trench Mortar Battery and died of wounds 29th September 1917, aged 25.

Buried : Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No.3, Belgium. Plot 1. Row J. Grave 16.

Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No.3, Belgium.
Private Will Dexter Brothwell grave

Private Will Dexter Brothwell is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Fred Brothwell, 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.