BACK TO WWI NAMESBEARDSLEY W. E.
William Ernest Beardsley
Private 2302
8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
William Ernest Beardsley died on Thursday 13th July 1916, Age 19, and is buried in the BELLACOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, RIVIERE, Pas de Calais, France.
He was the son of R.S.M. W. E. and Mrs. Beardsley, of 34 Alfreton Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
WILLIAM ERNEST BEARDSLEY. Born Belgaum, India, Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield 1/8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 2302, Died of Wounds, France & Flanders 13th July 1916
Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes