WM.+LESLIE+GAUNT

Gaunt, William Leslie, Private, 19833, 2nd/6th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Formerly 13577, Leicestershire Regiment Born Old Whittington, Derbyshire Enlisted Dinnington, Yorkshire Resided Old Whittington, Derbyshire Killed in action 28th September 1917

Aged 19 Son of Herbert Henry and Martha Ann Gaunt, of 1, Cavendish St., Old Whittington, Chesterfield. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial

1911 Census: William Leslie Gaunt was 13 years old, and still at school. He was the son of Henry Gaunt, a coal miner, and Martha Ann Gaunt, of 83, Cavendish Street, Old Whittington.