Sergeant William Henry Carline

Army Number: 240022 (formerly 250)

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Nottingham and lived at 389, Chatsworth Road, Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He went to France on 25th February 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during 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.

Sergeant William Henry Carline is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Thomas the Apostles Church War memorial, Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.