Private Walter Furness

Army Number: 24704

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

Born and lived at New Whittington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Brother of Alfred Furness, of 12, Cross London Street, New Whittington. He enlisted at Chesterfield and served in Gallipoli during 1915. He was killed in action, 26th September 1916, aged 24, 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.

Private Walter Furness is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Barnabas Church War Memorial, New Whittington, Derbyshire.