Army Number: 265605 formerly 2653

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

Went to France on 29th June 1915. Lived at Blue Bell Hill, Nottingham.

Died of wounds, 1st July 1916, 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.