Sergeant John Edward Hamer

Army Number: 307405

Battalion: 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: Military Medal. Mentioned in Despatches.

Son of Samuel and Sarah Hamer, of Lower White Knowl, Chapel-En-Le-Frith, Derbyshire.

Killed in action, 21st March 1918, aged 30, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.