Private George Fox

Army Number : 13649

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Newton, Derbyshire. He lived at 46 Sherwood Street, Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire. Son of Sampson and Jane of Newton. Husband of Sarah Elizabeth Fox, of 20, Swan Yard, Huthwaite. He was a coal miner at Tibshelf, Derbyshire prior to enlisting at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 27th August 1914. He went to France 23rd February 1915 and suffered gunshot wounds to his foot, 27th May 1915. He was admitted to the 11th General Hospital at Boulogne, 28th May 1915 and then sent to England.

He returned to France 28th March 1916 and was posted to the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was killed in action, 13th September 1916, aged 30, during the attack on Arrow Head Copse, Gulllemont, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont, France. Plot 6. Row D. Grave 3.

Private Fox is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Huthwaite Cemetery Cenotaph War Memorial, Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Able Seaman Adam Fox, H.M.S Defence, Royal Navy, also fell in the Great War during the Battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916.