Army Number : 2239

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at and enlisted at Nottingham; Husband of Eleanor Pottinger, of 28, Lamas Street, Nottingham. Went to France 28th February 1915 and was killed in action 1st August 1915, age 44.

Buried/Commemorated : Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row E. Grave 4.

His brother Sergeant Edwin Joseph Pottinger 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.