Corporal William Oswin

Army Number: 2792

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Nottingham and lived at 11, Bentinck Street, Nottingham. Son of James and Mary Ellen Oswin, 42, Trent Lane, Nottingham. He was a coal merchant’s labourer prior to enlisting on 17th July 1908 at Nottingham. He went to France on 11th November 1914 and was promoted to Corporal, 17th June 1915. He suffered shrapnel wounds to his head, 5th August 1915 and was admitted to 16th General Hospital, Le Treport, France, on 8th August 1915. He was transferred to England on Hospital Ship New Haven, 16th August 1915 and admitted to Bagthorpe Military Hospital, Nottingham where he died of wounds, on 30th November 1915, aged 28.

Buried: Nottingham General Cemetery, United Kingdom. Screen Wall. 03367.

His brothers Private John Oswin, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and Private Joseph Oswin, 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.