Army Number: 9689

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

Son of James and Mary Potter, of 14, Brussells Terrace, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, aged 30, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.