Private James Hart
Army Number : 29640
Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of Robert and Emma Hart, of 29, Strelley Street, Bulwell; Husband of Fanny Elizabeth Hart, of 2, Hare Yard, Stockwell Street, Bulwell, Nottingham. he was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 26th September 1917, aged 32, whilst in the line near Hill 70, near Mazingarbe, France.
Buried/Commemorated : Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.
Private James Hart is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Mary the Virgin Church War Memorial, Bulwell, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
His brother Private John Hart, 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.