Private Ernest Coffey

Army Number : 28943

Battalion : 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of William and Maria Coffey, of 1 Denmark Street, Nottingham. He was enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, aged 18, in the attack at Beaumont Hamel, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried : Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert, France. Plot 2. Row O. Grave 24.

Private Ernest Coffey is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.