Corporal William Ride

Army Number: 1589

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Elizabeth Ride, of 275, Stockbrook Street, Derby. Went to France on 1st March 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 22, during the attack on Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row L. Grave 41.