Private John Smith.

Army Number: 266785 formerly 5313

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British War and Victory Medal

Killed in action, 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried : Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot II, Row E, Grave 24.

Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France.
Private J. Smith