Private James Driver

Army Number: 15536

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

Born at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Son of Thomas and Mary <ddriver, of 27 coke street, Mansfield woodhouse. He was a coal miner at Langworth colliery prior to enlisting at Mansfield <September 1914. He Went to France on 27th August 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions near 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.

He is also commemorated on Yeoman war memorial, Mansfield Wodehouse.