Private Joseph King

Army Number: 266379 (formerly 4607)

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

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of George and Harriett King, of 8, Monsall Street, New Basford, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 24, in 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.

Private Joseph King is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Augustine’s Church War Memorial, (St. Leodegarius Church), Basford, Nottingham.