Private Walter Samuel Hunt

Army Number: 201679 (formerly 4631)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Lived at 63, Havelock Road, Derby. Husband of Emma Hunt, 100 Slack Lane, Derby. He was a Bricklayer prior to enlisting on 16th August 1915 at Derby. He went to France on 23rd March 1916 and was killed in action on 1st July 1916, in the attack at Gommecourt, France on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Bienvillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 21, Row H, Grave 2.