Private Jack Hyde
Army Number : 2121
Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Arnold, Nottinghamshire. Son of John and Mary Hyde, of 7, Cottage Row, Daybrook, Arnold, Nottingham. Was a farmer at Heath Sunrise Farm, Bestwood, Nottingham prior to enlisting 15th August 1914 at Newark, Nottinghamshire He went to France 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action 6th April 1915, aged 18, by being shot in the head by a German sniper, whilst serving in the trenches at Kemmel, Belgium.
Buried: Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Row E. Grave 54.
Private Hyde is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Arnot Hill Park War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Daybrook, Nottinghamshire.
His brother Private Edward Hyde, 9th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment was also killed in the Great War.