Private James Sheldon

Army Number: 16106

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Brother of Mrs W. James, of Watts Green, Ashford, Bakewell, Derbyshire. Went to France on 27th August 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 31, in the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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