Jim Ball

Private

Service No. 70551

Age 30

Died on 17 October 1917

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

TYNE COT MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of J. and Annie Ball, of Eyre St., Clay Cross, Chesterfield; husband of Matilda Healy (formerly Ball), of 5, Jarratt Square, Doncaster.

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Henry Harrison

Jim, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

Sarah Hardy

Jim Ball was my great great uncle. I've always felt gra to the man I never knew for his service and sacrifice.

Jim, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalions o...

Henry Harrison