Private William Shaw

Army Number: 3643

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of William and Lois Shaw, of 66, Model Village, Creswell, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.

Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 21, 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.