Lance Corporal William Rivers

Army Number: 266116 (formerly 3674)

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

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Mrs F. Rivers, of 81, Radcliffe Road, Granby Villa, West Bridgford, Nottingham. Went to France on 28th June 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.