W.+HIGGINBOTTOM

W. Higginbottom, 26153 Lance Corporal, 2nd/5th Battalion, Notts and Derby Regiment. Died 26th September 1917. Buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium. Grave reference: XVIII B 17.

Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19: Willis Higginbottom. Born - Cutthorpe, Derbyshire, Enlisted - Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Killed in action – France and Flanders.

Service papers available on Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) Willis Higginbottom enlisted on the 17th May 1915 in the 16th Battalion, Notts and Derby Regiment, at the age of 23 years and 2 months old. He was employed as a farmer, and was residing at Holmesfield. He was the son of Alfred Higginbottom, of Hall Cottages, Cowley, near Chesterfield.