Private John William Longmate

Army Number : 18951

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of James W. and Emily A. Longmate, of 13, Chesterfield Avenue, New Whittington, Chesterfield.

Killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 19, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.