Private John James Hollis

Army Number: 266664 (formerly 5086)

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

Son of Henry and Charlotte Hollis, of 181, Denman Street, Nottingham. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 27, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.