W.+WHITMORE

4009 Private William Whitmore of the 1/5 th  Battalion the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (the Sherwood Foresters) . Posted missing Saturday 25 March 1916, aged 25. Listed on the memorial for the missing, Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France. Recorded as missing presumed dead after the enemy blew a mine under the trench in which William Whitmore was on sentry duty. William Whitmore enlisted at Derby on Thursday 4 March 1915, confirming his normal place of residence to be Victoria Buildings, Stonebroom. (Died in same incident as T Swain above).