Private William Rimington

Army Number: 14547

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Went to France on 14th July 1915 and was killed in action, on 14th February 1916, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the southeast of Ypres, Belgium.

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

Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.

Private William Rimington is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Staveley War Memorial, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.