Private Norman Joseph Bunting

Army Number: 201232 (formerly 3889)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Herbert and Elizabeth Bunting, of 65, Franchise Street, Derby. He was a clerk prior to enlisting on 26th February 1915 at Derby. He went to France on 12th October 1915 and was killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 22, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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

Private Norman Joseph Bunting is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Luke’s Church War Memorial, Derby.