Private John Woodward

Army Number: 59635

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: M.M. (Military Medal)

Husband of Bertha Emily Jepson (Formerly Woodward), of 90, St. Augustines Road, Birdholme, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Awarded the Military Medal 16th (Chatsworth Rifles) Battalion attached Machine Gun Corps: London Gazette 14.1.1918: For gallantry and devotion to duty during operations at Bulgar Wood on 20/21st September 1917:

Killed in action, 21st March 1918, aged 27, whilst holding the line near Sorrell Wood/Longeuval, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated : Pozieres Memorial, France. Panel 52 to 54.