Army Number : 6249

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

Born at Nottingham; Husband of Mrs Elsie Kirk. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France 14th November 1914 and was killed in action at Hooge, Belgium 9th August 1915.

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

His brother Lance Corporal J. W. Pottinger 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War,