Private Lewis Eames

Army Number: 200915 formerly 3227

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby’s) Regiment.

Born at Newhall, Derbyshire. Son of Henry and Ann Eames, of 19 Windmill Street, Church Gresley, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner before enlisting 30th October 1914 at swadlincote, Derbyshire He Went to France on 25th June 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in 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 a;so commemorated on the Church Gresley War Memoial.