Sergeant Henry Shaw

Army Number: 2129

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

Son of Arthur and Annie Shaw, of 139, Station Road, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Went to France on 25th February 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 21, 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 20.