Private William Deverill

Army Number: 35658

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Bulwell, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Faith Deverill, of 3 Council Place, Stockwell Street, Bulwell, Nottinghamshire. He was a hosiery bleacher prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 8th August 1917, during a raid on the German positions near Plouvain, France.

Buried: Browns Copse Cemetery, Roeux, France. Plot 4. Row A. Grave 40.

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