Private Samuel Brough

Army Number: 25610

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Brother of Rose Hadfield, of 63, Park Street, Derby. He was a labourer prior to enlisting, on 26th April 1915 at Derby. He went to France on 1st February 1915 and was killed in action, on 17th July 1916,  by German shellfire, whilst serving in the trenches to the southeast of Trones Wood, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Thiepval Memorial, France.