Private Joseph Shooter

Army Number: 14948

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Staveley, Derbyshire. Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Shooter, of 3, Mill Houses, Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Husband of Florence Shooter. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He was killed in action, on 26th May 1917, whilst serving in the Black Line, near Arras, France.

Buried: Fampoux British Cemetery, France. Row A. Grave 48.

Fampoux British Cemetery, France.

Private Joseph Shooter is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Staveley War Memorial, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

His brother Private Aaron Shooter, 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.