Private John Charles Haynes

Army Number : 20003 (formerly 2118 and 242596)

Battalion : 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and lived at 42, Sherwood Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Joseph and Eliza Haynes, of 27, Unity Street, East Kirkby, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner (pony driver) prior to enlisting at Newark Nottinghamshire. He went to France 1st September 1915 and was killed in action, 16th March 1917, age 23, whilst serving in the trenches near Gommecourt, France.

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 3. Row D. Grave 16.