Local History

  LANCE CORPORAL JAMES EASTON – Died  6 February 1915 at France and Flanders and his buried at Le Touret Memorial Cemetery. Reference Panel 26 and 27.  Le Touret Memorial is located at the east end of Le Touret Military … Read More

LAVENTIE SOUTH GERMAN CEMETERY, which was on the road to La Flinque and contained 3 U.K. of April 1918.   Lance Corporal Samuel Frost – Died 20 January 1916 -11th Battalion Notts & Derby (Sherwood Foresters) regiment, regimental no 16121.  … Read More

Private Frederick George Walker – Notts and Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment in the 2nd Battalion. Regimental No 16130.  Died 10 February 1917 Buried:  Plot 5. Row C. Grave 34.   Vermelles British Cemetery is a First World War British war … Read More

Private George H Taylor – Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), 22/R. Fus. Pte. K/1331.  Died 19 Sep 1916 – Buried The Second Part M to Z. St Sever Cemetery and St Sever Cemetery Extension are located within a large … Read More

Lance Corporal Eric Lister – York and Lancaster Regiment, 1st/4th Battalion, Regimental number 21998.   Died 17 December 1917. His reference grave no is XXXI.D.15.  The inscription on his grave says, “UNTIL THE DAWN”.   During the First World War, the … Read More

Private William Attenborough – King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 7th Battalion, Regimental number 19811.  Died 20th July 1918.   Buried at Bouilly Cross Roads Military Cemetery. Bouilly, Departement de l’Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France  Plot: I.B.16. Bouilly is a commune 13 kilometres west … Read More

Private Hilary Carlin 1st/ 6th Battalion Notts and Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment. Regimental number 2448 – Died 30 March 1916  Plot I.C 15 Memorial ID 56570147.   Mont Saint Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 … Read More

Private Ivor Drew is buried in the above cemetery  reference: Cemetery/memorial reference: II. A. 18.  Location: Nord, France     Number of casualties: 930   Hazebrouck is a town lying about 56 kilometres south-east of Calais and is easily reached from Calais … Read More

The memorial commemorates more than 72,000 men of British and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave, the majority of whom died during the Somme offensive of 1916. On … Read More

William was Born in Derby  in 1889. William enlisted at Alfreton, Derbyshire into the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) into the 10th battalion, in June 1914.  He worked has a miner at Moorhole Colliery up to the time of … Read More