Lance Corporal G. H. Towell

Army Number: 6696

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

Husband of Kate Towell, of 18, John Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.

Went to France on 27th August 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 29, in the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The medal index card shows the date of death as 4th July 1916.

Buried: Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, France. Plot III, Row K, Grave 7.