Private Bernard Thomas Hawley

Army Number: 5221

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

Son of Thomas and Emma M. Hawley, of 7, Cambria Grove, Cranmer Street, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham on 19th November 1915 and went to France on 29th March 1916. He was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 28, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row L. Grave 28.

Private Bernard Thomas Hawley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.