W.+JARVIS

Believed to be 4301 Private William Jarvis of the 1/5 th  Battalion the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (the Sherwood Foresters) . Killed in action Thursday 25 November 1915, aged 27. Buried St Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, France. When this William Jarvis enlisted at Derby, he gave Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, as his place of residence. However, the 1901 census found him, aged 13, at 543 Cross Blocks, Stonebroom, with his parents Richard and Harriet Jarvis. That census records William as born in Stonebroom. His father was a Coal Hewer.