Private Joseph Eaton

Army Number: 1742

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

Son of Joseph Eaton, of Lower Birchwood, Alfreton, Derbyshire. Went to France on 1st March 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 22, 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.