Private William Root

Army Number : 70079

Battalion : 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards : M.M. (Military Medal) 16th (Chatsworth Rifles) Battalion: London Gazette 19.2.1917: For gallantry in action on 13.11.1916 in the attack on St Pierre Divion.

Son of John And Maria Root, of Occold, Eye, Suffolk.

Killed in Action 15th September 1917, aged 29, at Ridge Wood, near Reninghelst.

Buried/Commemorated : La Clytte Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row D. Grave 4.