Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Mrs. Edith Mary Firth, of 62, Chelsea Park Gardens, London. He enlisted in August 1914 and obtained his commission in Spetember of the same year. He went out to Gallipoli in 1915 and received the Military Cross. ‘Second Lieutenant Archibald Alan Schweder 14th Battalion attached 9th Battalion : London Gazette 15th March 1916. For conspicuous gallantry at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli Peninsula. He voluntarily crept out up a ravine some 120 yards in front of our trenches in broad daylight and destroyed a post of Turkish snipers which commanded the ravine’. After the evacuation he went to Egypt and then to France and was gazetted Captain in April 1916. He was mentioned in Sir Charles Monro’s despatches. He was killed in action, 26th September 1916, age 21, during the attack on the German positions at Thiepval, France during the Battle of the Somme.

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