Private James Ladds

Army Number : 51953

Battalion : 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born At Waddingham, Lincolnshire. Son of Robert and Mary Ladds, of 324 Ashby Road, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. He died, 25th August 1916, age 20, at Sunderland.

Private James Ladds art
Nottingham Evening Post 31st August 1916.

Buried: Waddingham (St. Mary and Peter) Churchyard, United Kingdom.

Private Ladds is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary and St. Peters’s Church War Memorial, Waddingham, Lincolnshire.

His brother Private George Ladds, 9th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.