Private John Arthur Chadwick

Army Number: 12298

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Bakewell, Derbyshire and lived in Ardwick, Manchester. Son of George Isaac and Sarah Chadwick, of Lunford Cottages, Bakewell, Derbyshire. He was a kennel boy prior to enlisting at Bakewell. He went to France on 11th November 1914 and was killed in action on 5th July 1916 in the attack on the German positions at La Boisselle, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

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

Private John Arthur 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 Corporal George William Chadwick, 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Gerat War.