Private John Thomas Murden

Army Number : 2534

Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Lived at Forest Town, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was coal miner prior to enlisting 9th September 1914 at Mansfield. Son of John and Elizabeth Murden, of 9, First Avenue, Forest Town. He went to France 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, 21st April 1915, whilst on a wiring party, in front of the trenches at Kemmel, Belgium.

Private John Thomas Murden art1
Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times 30th April 1915.

Buried: Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Row E. Grave 67.

Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Private John Thomas Murden grave

Private John Thomas Murden is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Alban’s The Martyr Church War Memorial Cross, Forest Town, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
St. Alban’s The Martyr Church Roll of Honour, Forest Town, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Yeoman Memorial Park, War Memorial, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.