Lance Corporal Arthur Dennis

Army Number: 265307 formerly 2068

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

born at Kimberley, Nottinghamshire son of William and Lydia Dennis, of 7 Second Avenue, Carlton Hill, Nottinghsam.He was a Iron Turner prior to enlisting at Nottingham 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.

He is also commemorated on thr Holy Trinity Church war Memorial, Kimberley, Mundella School, War Memorial, (St mary’s `church, Nottingham)