WW1 Casualties this month
100 years ago
1st JULY 1916
Private Herbert Peet Buram, aged 20, 1/7th Sherwood Foresters
Born in Ruddington, son of Samuel and Violet Burman (nee Peet)
Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, Pas de Calais, France
Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Arthur Hind, aged 38, 1/7th Sherwood Foresters
Son of Jesse and Eliza Hind of Edwalton. Lived at Manor Park with wife, Eliza Montgomery Andrews, and three daughters.
Remembered on: Thiepval Memorial, Somme
2nd Lieutenant Francis Joseph Hicking, aged 19, 13th attatched 10th West Yorkshire
Son of Joseph William and Kate Florence Hicking of Cheltenham, formerly of Ruddington.
Buried: Fricourt New Military Cemetery, Somme
and his brother
Lieutenant George Graham Hicking, aged 22, 8th Yorks and Lancs
Son of Joseph William and Kate Florence Hicking of Cheltenham, formerly of Ruddington.
Remembered on : Thiepval Memorial, Somme
27th JULY 1916
Rifleman Samuel Gunn, aged 20, 1st Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
Son of Thomas and Annie Gunn, High Street, Ruddington
Buried: Dive Copse British Cemetery, Sailly-le-Sec, Somme