Army Number: 11171

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Henry and Anne Silkstone, of 127, Sneinton Dale, Nottingham. He went to France on 4th November 1914 and was killed in action, on 11th March 1915, aged 29, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, France.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.