Corporal Jack Carlile

Army Number : 15156

Battalion : 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Whittington, Derbyshire. Son of Thomas and Sarah Ann Carlile, of 102 Holland Road, Old Whittington. He was a coal miner at Grasmoor Colliery, Derbyshire. prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He went to France 13th October 1915 and was killed in action, 27th March 1918, whilst in the trenches near Vrely, France.

Buried : Cayeux Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row E. Grave 6/9.

Corporal Jack Carlile is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Old Whittington War Memorial, Old Whittington, Derbyshire.

His brother Private Percy Carlile, 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War