WHYMAN G. S.*

George Taylor Whyman

Private 16193

9th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

George Taylor Whyman died on Tuesday 24th July 1917, aged 35 years, and was remembered on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

He was born c1882 at Radford, Nottingham, to parents John & Frances Whyman. John Whyman was a Signalman, and a native of Borrowash, Derbys, who was living at Railway House, Radford, Nottingham in 1891. 

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’

WHYMAN George Taylor. Born Old Radford, Notts, enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 9th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 16193, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 24th July 1917.

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Research by Heather Faulkes
* Although Memorial has initials as GS, I believe this is the correct entry.