Private Walter Jepson

Army Number: 15257

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Mrs Selina Jepson, of 81, Norfolk Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Went to France on 27th August 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 23, in the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Serre Road Cemetery No.2, France. Plot XXIV, Row F, Grave 9.

Serre Road Cemetery No.2, France.