Private Herbert Watkin

Army Number: 266762 formerly 5277

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

Son of Mrs. Annie Watkin, of 18, Bennet Grove, Coppice Road, Mapperley; Husband of Elizabeth Muriel Watkin, of 14, Oldhnaw Street, Hyson Green, Nottingham.

Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 34, 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.