Lance Corporal William Egbert Dumelow

Army Number: 200079 (formerly 1435)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Ernest and Emma Dumelow, of 135, Holcombe Street, Derby. Went to France on 1st March 1915. 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.