SCOTHERN J. W.
John William Scothern
Private 201251
1st/5th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
John William Scothern died on Saturday 1st July 1916, and is commemorated on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. He died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, and was one of ten local men killed on the same day.
He was born c1894 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, the son of Samuel Scothern. Samuel Scothern was a Bricklayers Labourer and a widower by the 1901 census, when the family were living at Bower's Yard, Sutton.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War
1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
SCOTHERN John Wm. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Enlisted Alfreton, Derbys (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield) 1/5th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 201251, Killed in Action France & Flanders 1st July 1916.
Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes
