Lance Corporal Herbert Coe

Army Number: 2385

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of George and Jane Coe, of Main Street, Awsworth, Nottinghamshire. He was a Teacher at Kimberly British School prior to enlisting on 21st September 1914 at Derby. He went to France on 26th February 1915 and was appointed Lance Corporal on 3rd May 1916. He suffered gunshot wounds to his testicles and left arm on the 1st July at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme and died of wounds, on 4th July 1916, aged 25, at No. 20 Casualty Clearing Station, Warlincourt, France.

Buried: Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, France. Plot 1. Row G. Grave 10.

Lance Corporal Herbert Coe is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Holy Trinity Church War Memorial, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire.
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Awsworth, Nottinghamshire.
Kimberley British School War Memorial, Parish Hall, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire.
Notts County Council Employees War Memorial, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.