Private Edwin England

Army Number : 22645

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Pye Bridge, Alfreton, Derbyshire. He was a clerk at Babbington Colliery prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to Gallipoli 6the September 1915, then Egypt and went to France July 1916. He was killed in action, 26th September 1916, in the attack on the German positions near Ovillers France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.