Army Number: 26504 (formerly 1168)

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

Lived at 15, Alison Rise, Alfred Street, Nottingham. Son of Robert and Mary Ward.

killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 22, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.