Private Benjamin Hawkins

Army Number: 6973

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Went to France on 27th August 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, France. Plot IV. Row E. Grave 4.