Corporal George William Chadwick

Army Number: 240637 (formerly Private 2561)

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

Born at Bakewell, Derbyshire and lived at 170 Moss Lane, East Moss Side, Manchester. Son of George Isaac and Sarah Chadwick, of Lunford Cottages, Bakewell, Derbyshire. He was an electric plate former prior to enlisting on 9th October 1914 at Bakewell. He went to France on 26th June 1915 and was appointed Lance Corporal, on 29th June 1916. He was promoted to Corporal, on 3rd August 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1917, in the attack to the west of Lens, France.

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Corporal George William Chadwick is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Bakewell War Memorial, Bakewell, Derbyshire.
All Saints Church War Memorial, Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Bakewell and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital War Memorial, Bakewell, Derbyshire.

His brother Private John Arthur Chadwick, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.