Lance Corporal Richard Doherty

Army Number: 19155

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Calver, Derbyshire. Son of Ellen Doherty, of Newburgh Terrace, Calver, Derbyshire. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting at Buxton, Derbyshire and went to France on 31st August 1915. He was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 22, during the attack on the German positions at Ovillers, 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.

Lance Corporal Richard Doherty is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
All Saints Church War Memorial, Claver, Derbyshire.