Private Arthur Garfoot

Army Number: 266296 formerly 3953

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of William Henry and Priscilla Garfoot, of 1, Middle Furlong Road, Meadows, Nottingham. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 19, 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.