Private William Sparham

Army Number: 200731

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Went to France on 25th June 1915. 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 1, Row B, Grave 3.

Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France.
Private W. Sparham